{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Classical Classroom, Episode 84: JoAnn Falletta Shares Scheherazade (Rerun)","description":"JoAnn Falletta is celebrating her 20th anniversary as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, so we've gotta give her a shout out with this old gold from the Classroom vault! By the way, did you know that a 2014 survey found that in a list of the 150 top conductors in the world, only five were women? New episode topic? --------- Who was Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and why does he have two last names? And why would a 19th century Russian composer write a symphonic poem based on a collection of West and South Asian folk tales written in Arabic in the 16th century? What does it all mean?? Most* of these questions and more are all answered within by Buffalo Philharmonic\/Virginia Symphony Orchestra conductor, guitarist, music advocate, and all around amazing lady, JoAnn Falletta. Music in this episode from the Buffalo Philharmonic\u2019s recording of Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s \u201cSheherazade,\u201d conducted by JoAnn Falletta. Audio production by Todd \u201cTwister\u201d Hulslander with high kicks by Dacia Clay and editing by Mark DiClaudio. ","author_name":"Classical Classroom","author_url":"http:\/\/classicalclassroomshow.com","html":"