Hi, Judith - I just read your comment and checked my notes. If I said 29%, I apologize. My notes definitely said '21%' for the Strauss and 'just about 50% for the Rimsky-Korsakov.

Thanks for taking the time to write.

Midge

My vote is for Scheherazade. It brings back childhood memories of the Tales of the Arabian Nights -- the exotic, the mysterious and the powerful -- and with the bonus of gorgeous violin solo playing, just the sort of piece Mr. Dicterow was born to play.

Fell in love to this music. Still in love with this memory.

It is too hot to dance, well, perhaps not to tell stories. But Mozart is the better singer and he will carry us off to more aetherial, if not cooler, regions where we cab think of the pleasure Mr Dicterow has given us over the years.

If I heard you correctly, Midge, you just tallied the vote, and announced that Scheherazade had 50% of the vote, Mozart had 30%, and Strauss had 29%. By my reckoning, that's 109%. Hmmm ...

Glenn Dicterow - and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade Op. 35" - as such a first-rate soloist, who seems to have performed everywhere and can even be heard on soundtracks as diverse as "Beauty and The Beast" and "Interview With The Vampire" - Mr. Dicterow will bring this highly dramatic music to the level of "the sublime".

I think you spend far too much time announcing over and over and over all morning the music countdown or whatever it is called. It gets so boring I have taken to switching to the music on my iPod so I don't have to listen to the same announcement repeatedly.

I also am in favor of Scheherazade, for all of the reasons stated by others - and selfishly because that work is in my all-time Top Ten.

What a marvelous, agonizing decision! You picked three winners, but I went with Rimsky-Korsakov. Hope you'll play Ein Heldenleben and the Mozart soon to celebrate Dicterow's wonderful, distinguished tenure as concertmaster.

I agree with Adriana; I voted for Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade. Besides, we already hear enough Mozart - let's hear something else for a change!

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, all the way! It's such a beautiful and powerful piece...It gives me goosebumps! :D

No matter what else is on offer, I'll always choose Mozart's sinfonia concertante. I love the way the voices of the violin and viola interweave with each other and with the orchestra.

His first name is spelled "Glenn," not "Glen."

http://www.glenndicterow.com/