Ivan Vsevolozhsky

the ballet, setting ito Tchaikovsky’s music with choreography by Marius Petipa, and premiering it a week before Christmas (Burton-Hill). Tchaikovsky first accepted the task to write the music from the director of Moscow’s Imperial Theatres, Ivan Vsevolozhsky (History of The Nutcracker). He began to work while on an American tour for the opening of Carnegie Hall. His tour took him through Paris, where he discovered a new instrument: the celesta. It had a clear, bell-like tone that was perfectly fitted

The Nutcracker: Live On the 26th of November, 2016, I had the wonderful opportunity to witness the Colorado Ballet Orchestra perform the nutcracker live. The concert was at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, and the phenomenal symphony was led by Adam Flatt. This was my first ever classical concert as well as concert, and I was not disappointed. The performance was wonderful, and the opera house was beautiful. The Nutcracker performance was one hour and fifty minutes long, therefore

I have talked before about coming from a simple life. That could be a slight understatement as I have never previously attended a ballet, and when the question, “Surely, you’ve all heard of Tchaikovsky, right?” was posed I struggled to recognize the name or any significance to my life. It was not until I heard the musical number of “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” that the gears of my mind finally associated it with memory. While the first few notes of the celesta filled the room with carefree delight

The fifth and final 2017 Colorado Springs Philharmonic and Oklahoma City Ballet performance of The Nutcracker took place on Sunday, November 26, 2017, at 2:00 pm at the Pikes Peak Center. This rendition featured Conductor Thomas Wilson, Oklahoma City Ballet Artistic Director Robert Mills, the Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, and numerous student dancers from the Pikes Peak Region. Through the excellence in the music, dancing, and stage and costume design, this holiday Nutcracker performance not

On November 25, 2017 I attended The Nutcracker ballet performance at the Eisemann Center. The dance was adapted from a story by E.T.A Hoffman with the music by Tchaikovsky. The show was a faithful adaptation of The Nutcracker with the dancers, costumes, sets, and Tchaikovsky’s music all playing an integral part in depicting the story in an entertaining way. Overall, the presentation was successful in portraying the holiday classic that is The Nutcracker, and the majestic sets and costumes along with

Each year, it is a tradition within my family to see “The Nutcracker” at Christmastime. “The Nutcracker” is a ballet about a young German girl, Clara, who dreams of a Nutcracker Prince and a battle with a Mouse King, that was helped to be made famous by a Russian composer, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Along with “The Nutcracker”, Tchaikovsky composed the works from two other popular ballets, “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty”. Tchaikovsky and his compositions played a major role in changing and shaping

The Nutcracker ballet is an important piece of the holiday seasons. The story and the music that is performed never changed over the years but people love to recreate it and add their own ideas to it. This semester I attended a performance of the Nutcracker presented by Kingwood Dance Theatre at Atascocita High School Theatre. The music that was used for the ballet came from Peter Tchaikovsky, from the romantic era, and the original choreography of this performance was first created by John Adamson

Upon listening to Tchaikovsky’s dance of the sugar plum fairy for the first time I initially felt a sense of holiday wonder, which is because this composition has often been associated with the holiday season. After listening to this piece a few more times I instead felt a wide range of emotions, from curiosity and anticipation to calmness and contentedness. These emotions are all evoked through the many different compositional techniques Tchaikovsky has used in this piece. The first section is introduced

The Nutcracker Ballet is based on the story of the original story which was written by E.T.A. Hoffman in 1816. Although Hoffman’s story was a fairy tale, it was not meant for children. Then in 1892, a choreographer named Marius Petipa sought Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky to write music which would become one of the most popular ballets of the world. It was Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum house and it was attended by all the townspeople. Soon the party grew as the guest began to arrive. Then, godfather

Ivan Pavlov developed a theory called classical conditioning which proposes that learning process occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus. Classical conditioning involves placing a neutral signal before a naturally occurring reflex like associating the food with the bell in Pavlov experiment. In classical conditioning, behavior is learnt by association where a stimulus that was originally neutral can become a trigger for substance use or cravings