The Nutcracker Overture (feat. Snubby J and his RimbaTubes)

Collaboration with the phenomenal Snubby J -- fellow percussionist and Nutcracker enthusiast! Checkout Snubby J's Channel. Tell him Aaron Grooves sent you. ;) /snubbyj Tchaikovsky is one of my all-time favorite composers, and the Nutcracker Suite is filled with some of the most iconic melodies known to human kind. Here are a 5 interesting facts about the Nutcracker: 1. "The Nutcracker" ballet premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia on December 18, 1892. 2. Tchaikovsky didn't feel that the Nutcracker Suite was his best composition. He later wrote that it was "infinitely poorer" than his other two ballets -- "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty." 3. Tchaikovsky based the "voice" of the Sugar Plum Fairy on a new instrument he discovered in Paris: the celesta. The instrument had a clear, bell-like tone with ethereal notes, perfect for the fairy-tale ambiance of "The Nutcracker." 4. Tchaikovsky used children's toys as instruments in keeping with the tale as a children's story. 5. The first full-length production of "The Nutcracker" in the United States was in 1944 at the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the direction of William Christensen.

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