Transparent Music box plays Tchaikovsky's Ballet Nutcracker, "Waltz of Flowers"

Play along with 10 pieces from the beloved holiday ballet, including Songs: Waltz Of The Flowers : Arabian Dance ('coffee') : March From The Nutcracker : Final Waltz And Apotheosis : Russian Dance ('trepak') : Spanish Dance : Chinese Dance ('tea') : Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy : Overture : Dance Of The Reed-flutes

Play along with 10 pieces from the beloved holiday ballet, including Songs: Waltz Of The Flowers : Arabian Dance ('coffee') : March From The Nutcracker : Final Waltz And Apotheosis : Russian Dance ('trepak') : Spanish Dance : Chinese Dance ('tea') : Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy : Overture : Dance Of The Reed-flutes

Grand Piano Ebony Music Box Black Ebony Glossy Lacquer Finish with Bench. Measures approx 8" x 6" (larger when lid is opened. Scale model wood piano has full strung interior, gilded harp, turned legs hinged lid, hinged key top lid, music book, brass foot pedals, and bench. Opens up to reveal red velvet lined jewely compartment, and visible musical movement viewed beneath clear plexiglass panel. Inside is included a BALLERINA pendant neclace, set with jewelcut Austrian gemstones, Collectors Plea

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Features: Make music listening fun and active with creative visuals and activities for Tchaikovsky's holiday standard The Nutcracker Suite. Created for the music classroom, the Activity Book/CD features a variety of reproducible listening maps and activities, helpful teaching suggestions, and a full-length version of this masterwork performed by the Slovak Symphony Orchestra. Student editions with full color listening maps provide extra visual effect as students follow the familiar music of the Suite's eight movements: Overture, Chinese Dance, Russian Dance, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Waltz of the Flowers, March, Dance of the Reed Flute, and Arabian Dance. The value-packed Classroom Kit includes the Book/CD Pak and Student 20-Pak. Enhance music appreciation in your classroom this holiday season! For Gr. 2-6.

This solo piano edition of Tchaikovsky's ballet offers pianists a chance to enjoy such favorites as "The Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" and "The Waltz of the Flowers." This arrangement by Sergey Taneyev and the composer himself renders the complete ballet in a style both idiomatic to the piano and specially designed to be relatively easy to play.

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A Festival of Ballet, a 50-CD box set, covers the whole range of ballet, from its origins as an integral part of the Baroque operas of Purcell and Rameau, through its establishment in the 18th and 19th centuries in France and Russia in the form that we now think of as `classical ballet', to the development of a more modern style -- including the concept of abstract ballets -- in the 20th century that found its flowering in the celebrated works of Fokine, Balanchine, Tudor, Ashton, MacMillan and many others. The set begins with substantial highlights from the three great Tchaikovsky ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, and then come more works by Russian composers such as Prokofiev, Glazunov, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Khachaturian. The rest of the set consists of basically national groupings of composers -- mainly French, English, German and American -- until the last four CDs, which contain ballet music from operas, oratorios and plays. Many of the ballet scores are heard complete, but most of the full-length works are represented by highlights that cover all the best-known sections. Apart from the three Tchaikovsky ballets, other long works that have been highlighted include Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Don Quixote, Coppélia, Sylvia and La Fille mal gardée. The recordings feature the world's greatest orchestras under many outstanding international conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Muti, André Previn and Sir Simon Rattle, as well as leading ballet experts like John Lanchbery, Barry Wordsworth, Terence Kern and Robert Irving. Also heard are authoritative recordings of ballet scores that use arrangements of music not originally written for the dance, conducted by the men who so skilfully put them together, like Sir Charles Mackerras (Pineapple Poll) and Manuel Rosenthal (Gaîté Parisienne). As well as all the most popular ballet music, the set includes some rarities of great interest, such as the first complete recording of John Antill's Corroboree (1950), a spectacular score that vividly portrays the primitive ceremonies and dances of the Australian aborigines, and Charles Koechlin's tone poem Les BandarLog that formed the bulk of the score for Antony Tudor's atmospheric 1967 ballet Shadowplay. Also heard here is Cole Porter's only classical ballet score, the 1923 work Within the Quota which, coincidently, was orchestrated by Charles Koechlin.

One of the most famous ballets by Tschaikowsky is given special treatment by veteran orchestra arranger Merle Isaac. Two lovely melodies are included in this rewarding collection. Both are complete arrangements, but they can be performed as a suite.

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