A Sultan...a story...a symphony.
I thought of this today, because I heard this on the way to the store...and it took me back to my youth...my mother...and her love of this...Scheherazade... I think I love this symphony...not only because of the haunting melody...but because of the poetic meaning...Meaning? Well...yes of course. Scheherazade (IPA: /ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːd, -ˈzɑːdə/), sometimes Scheherazadea, Persian transliteration Shahrazad or Shahrzād (Persian: شهرزاد Šahrzād) is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. The famous tale goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: شهريار or "king") would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday's wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was betraying him. He had killed three thousand such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter. In Sir Richard F. Burton's translation of The Nights, Shahrazad was described in this way: "