“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thu
nderstorm, and we all go through it together” Garrison Keillor.
Musical moment... Timeless classical suite: The Nutcracker.
I can’t believe that all the excitement and anticipation is over! Another year, another Christmas… How did it all happen? Well, my mom was right when she was telling me back when I was a little girl: “Don’t wish to be older… When you’ll get there, you can’t turn the clock back.”
Yes, now I am mom of two wonderful boys: Nikita, 15 years old, and Andrei, 8 years old. And I am trying to tell them to enjoy every day of their childhood.
Being a piano teacher I have strong association of Christmas with one of THE MOST beautiful and beloved classical pieces: The Nutcracker, composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer. Tchaikovsky was quite a famous and successful composer when he began composing The Nutcracker in 1891, a ballet based on Alexandre Duma’s adaption of Hoffman’s tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. By March 1892 the ballet was orchestrated and, apart from final revision, completed.
The complete ballet was first presented on December 18 of that year at the Maryinski Theater before the Emperor and his court.
Every year I include beautiful pieces from this timeless suite to our winter piano recitals. Below are a few performances. I hope you will find them interesting. I am playing Russian Dance, Trepak, with my oldest son, Nikita, last year. (Little Beethovens LLC, South Windsor piano studio)
And Happy New Year, Everybody!
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