The Nuter Tchaikovsky Music Cracker Suites Presents
The Nutcracker Suites presents two versions of the holiday classic, the original 1892 composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and a wonderful jazz take of it from 1960, written by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. 3, Childrens Galop and Entry of the Parents Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon RattleThe premiere was actually performed by students, and got some pretty bad reviews! One reviewer wrote "for dancers there is rather little in it, for absolutely nothing, and for the artistic fate of our ballet, one more step downward"Even though the critics didn't like it, the Russian public did.
Major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of The Nutcracker.Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions, in particular the pieces featured in the suite. Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda. 71: Miniature Overture, The.The Nutcracker Ballet - Listing Nutcracker performances across the nation and around the world The Nutcracker Ballet is based on the book called 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' written by E.T.A.
Disclaimer: Speck is a nut for The Nutcracker. The rest, they say, is history, and the holidays wouldn’t be the same without Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.Conductor Scott Speck, who co-authored Classical Music for Dummies and leads the Chicago Philharmonic for performances of The Nutcracker with Joffrey Ballet, explained what makes Tchaikovsky’s score as addictive as your favorite holiday treats. But the Mariinsky’s management was worried that Iolanta would not sell enough tickets, and convinced Tchaikovsky to create a holiday ballet that, hopefully, when paired as a double bill with the opera, would preclude financial losses. He was writing an opera, Iolanta, for the Mariinsky Theatre that was scheduled to premiere during the winter of 1892. The snow scene in Joffrey's "Nutcracker" (Photo: Cheryl Mann)Tchaikovsky composed The Nutcracker, one of the most beloved ballets of all time, begrudgingly. It was given its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta.Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was.
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There’s also bells and percussion that come in at the end, which again is a nod that people looked to Turkey, which is as far as their musical world went, when they wanted to evoke anything eastern.” One thing that makes this movement especially fun and festive, if not authentically Chinese, is the “dialogue between the high woodwinds and pizzicato strings, which creates fantastic changes in orchestral color and is very lighthearted.”Gayeon Jung, Nicole Ciapponi, and Anais Bueno perform the Dance of the Reed Flutes in Joffrey's Nutcracker (Photo: Cheryl Mann)“This movement was supposed to mimic actual flutes, embodied. We hear a playful theme played in the flute, the piccolo comes in and plays an octave higher. The only thing, I think, that sounded Chinese in Tchaikovsky’s mind was exploring somewhat extreme registers in the woodwinds. “But there’s nothing pentatonic in this piece.
It’s absolutely graceful, and gracious, and endearing, and alluring. We’re drawn in with the sonority of the flutes, and we hear them low in their register, and then Tchaikovsky pulls them all the way up to the higher end of their register. There are only two moments in all of Nutcracker where you’re really aware there are three flutes playing in the orchestra, one is when Drosselmeyer makes his entrance in Act I, and the other is here. It creates this sense of buoyancy and motion that you wouldn’t get if there was a larger ensemble, but it’s a brilliant masterstroke of orchestration, in my opinion.
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