Kudos to the San Luis Obispo Symphony and its director, Michael Nowak, for fine playing of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s beauteous and challenging symphony suite, “Sheherazade.”

Having been a trumpet player since before high school (long ago), I especially enjoy orchestral music when the brass sections (trumpets, trombones, French horns and tubas) have large parts, as in the colorful and brilliant final movement of Sheherazade.

Korsakov was known for his mastery of orchestration and had Prokofiev and Stravinsky as pupils.

Good work, carry on.