During the pandemic, travel was -and is- a fleeting wish for many people. With the exotic locales, discovered or imagined, in "Asie" from Maurice Ravel's (1875 - 1937) Shéhérazade, Natalie Sherer, Nicholas Roehler, and Olivia Johnson embark on a musical journey that takes them from the waves of the sea and the towers of Persia, to the streets of China and beyond in this episode, an ode to travel.
Meet the Artists:
Nicholas Roehler
Olivia Johnson
Natalie Sherer
Check out the original Poetry with English Translation (via LiederNet) Based on text by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère, as Tristan Klingsor, from Schéhérazade