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Sugar plums are widely associated with Christmas, through cultural phenomena such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker (composed by Tchaikovsky, 1892), as well as the line, "The children were nestled all snug in their beds/While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads," from Clement C. Moore's poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823), better known as " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas".
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
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Feminist ballerina Ashley Bouder has been outspoken about body shaming in the ballet world. Here's how she's leading by example as her daughter joins her on stage this holiday "Nutcracker" season.
Original publication in 1816 in Berlin in the collection Kinder-Märchen (Children's Stories) by In der Realschulbuchhandlung "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a novella–fairy tale written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which a young girl's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King ...
Duke Ellington – piano; Willie Cook, Fats Ford, Ray Nance, Clark Terry - trumpet; Lawrence Brown, Booty Wood, Britt Woodman - trombone; Juan Tizol - valve trombone; Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone
The Fairies have control over nature and control each season. The Dewdrop Fairies create dewdrops in flowers and webs for spring while dancing the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The other fairies are the Summer Fairies, who change spring to summer; the Autumn Fairies, who change summer to autumn and make the leaves fall and change color; the ...