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The song "The Vultures Fly High" was written about the negative treatment Renaissance received from music critics. [3] "Ocean Gypsy" has since been covered by Blackmore's Night. For most of the album's production, the planned title was simply Scheherazade; appending "and Other Stories" was a last minute decision. [3]
Live at Carnegie Hall is a 1976 live double album by the English progressive rock band Renaissance.It presented songs from all of the band's Annie Haslam-era studio albums thus far, including the forthcoming (at the time of the concerts [3]) Scheherazade and Other Stories.
The 1991 song "Şehrezat" by famous Turkish songwriter and singer Barış Manço is strongly based on Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) with an extended part of original lyrics. In the song "Scheherazade", on his 1988 album One More Story, Peter Cetera refers to the One Thousand and One Nights tale, the song features backup-vocals by Madonna.
Song of Scheherazade is a 1947 American musical film directed by Walter Reisch. It tells the story of an imaginary episode in the life of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( Jean-Pierre Aumont ), in 1865, when he was a young naval officer on shore leave in Morocco .
During this period, Thatcher wrote most of the band's lyrics for the studio albums Prologue (1972), Ashes Are Burning (1973), Turn of the Cards (1974), Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975), Novella (1977), A Song for All Seasons (1978) and Azure d'Or (1979). She wrote the lyrics to their 1978 UK top 10 hit single "Northern Lights".
Both settings are influenced by Russian composers, particularly Rimsky-Korsakov, who had written a symphonic suite based on Scheherazade in 1888. The first composition was heavily influenced by Russian music, the second used a text inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic poem. The musical relation between the overture and the song cycle is tenuous.
In most of Scheherazade's narrations there are also stories narrated, and even in some of these, there are some other stories. [77] This is particularly the case for the "Sinbad the Sailor" story narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights. Within the "Sinbad the Sailor" story itself, the protagonist Sinbad the Sailor narrates ...
Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: Шехеразада, romanized: Shekherazada, IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights).