Concertmaster embraces role
16.09.11
At least, that’s what she said primeval this week during a phone interview. She may have been teasing. If you sit in on tomorrow’s concert at the F.M. Kirby Center, you’ll see she’s opted for the friendly of simple and elegant gown the concertmaster typically wears.
She plans to let the music confirm the dramatic impact – through the orchestra and through her violin solos, in which the violin’s “assert” will become that of the beleaguered, legendary sultana.
“I’ve played this before, and I have felt that I was Scheherezade,” Kiesewetter, 53, said. “There is a discouragement there but also a clever and conniving aspect. It’s incomparable satisfaction to set the stage and see each story become successful.”
The suitable Scheherezade, honored in Nicholai Rimsky-Korsakov’s creation of the same name, spends 1001 nights telling stories so compelling they continually defer her impending execution. OK, we know who she is.
Source: Wilkes Barre Times-Leader