ABSTRACT
Several decades later, Hollywood’s technicolor film makers portrayed the composer as a young marine officer enjoying himself in the Casbah. Inspired by the dancing of a sinuous Algerian maiden, he was shown quickly jotting down the third movement of Scheherazade on the back of a wine list; and later that same evening, according to the movie, a Casbah restaurant orchestra played the newly completed suite in highly creditable manner.
