ClariBros | The Nutcracker: III. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker: III. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
We present you our 2020 Christmas special -The Nutcracker Suite
The "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is the third movement in The Nutcracker. The choreographer wanted the Sugar Plum Fairy's music to sound like "drops of water shooting from a fountain".
Tchaikovsky found the ideal instrument to do this job in Paris in 1891. He came across the recently invented - celesta. This instrument looked like a piano and sounded like bells. Tchaikovsky wrote, "The celesta is midway between a tiny piano and a Glockenspiel, with a divinely wonderful sound." He wanted to use the celesta in The Nutcracker. Also he wanted to keep this instrument a secret, because he did not want other Russian composers to "get wind of it and ... use it for unusual effects before me."
Tchaikovsky introduced the celesta to Russian music culture on 19 March 1892 when the Nutcracker Suite was performed for the Russian Musical Society in St. Peters burg. The instrument is forever linked with the Sugar Plum Fairy.
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Antanas Makštutis (Paris)
Stasys Makštutis (Lyon)
Rokas Makštutis (Kaunas)
2020

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