Scheherazade & Márquez’s Fandango
Passionate Dances & Powerful Stories
February 13 & 14, 2026
7:30 pm
Nicholas Hersh, conductor
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
📍 Gallo Center for the Arts
⌛: ~107 minutes
About this Performance
This February, experience an evening of storytelling through the power of music. The program will open with Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations—a poignant tribute to the Civil Rights Movement. Then two-time Latin GRAMMY winner and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers will perform Márquez’s fiery Fandango. The concert will end with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a journey through the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, filled with sweeping melodies and vivid colors.
♫ Program
Margaret Bonds: Selections from Montgomery Variations
Arturo Márquez: Fandango
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
⌛: ~107 minutes
New! Pre-Concert Performance featuring Ballet Folklórico Anáhuac
Dive deeper into Marquez's Fandango with a pre-concert performance featuring dancers from Ballet Folklórico Anáhuac.
The pre-concert performance begins at 6:30 pm inside the theater and is free to all ticket holders.
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Additional Notes:
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