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Article: NUTCRACKERS, NOTCRACKERS AND JOY TO THE WORLD.
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- Dance Magazine
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- December 1, 2000
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Once upon a time there were no Nutcrackers! Then the great Czar of snowy Russia called. "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, you have composed for us two wonderful ballets, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. Now make us a new and glorious one for our Imperial Theatre season. I will give you the services of our finest choreographer, Marius Petipa, and Riccardo Drigo to conduct the orchestra. Make us something joyous for the children and to show off our very finest dancers in the Maryinsky company. A lady at court has told us of a gothic story, Der Nussknacker und der Mausekonig, by a German author, E.T.A. Hoffmann, who, I'm told, was much devoted to Mozart." "No, no," protested ...
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Article: The Arts: New York City Ballet's power and glory ...
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