Hoffman, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm (1819). Die Serapionsbrüder[ The Serapion Brethren]. Vol.I. Translated by Ewing, Major Alex. London: George Bell and Sons (published 1886). p.iii.

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In 1959, the first stereo LP album set of the complete ballet, with Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, appeared on Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the US. Wiley, Roland John (1985), Tchaikovsky's Ballets, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-816249-9 Al ser un libro escrito para niños, debo advertir que hay muchas cosas que no tienen sentido o explicación lógica, lo que hay que hacer es dejarse llevar por la prosa de Dumas y recordar que dicha explicación no se necesita al entender el contexto en el que se desarrolla la historia. Asimismo, el hecho de que esté ambientado en Navidad lo hace ser un relato acogedor, ideal para cualquier época del año pero sobre todo para la navideña, propiamente.

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In 2017, Lindsey Stirling released her version of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" on her holiday album Warmer in the Winter. [60] The story itself has dark layers to it that the ballet does not possess. It has a rather disjointed flow to it and altogether it is a fairly obvious story of a time long ago (when attractiveness was the most important quality in any thing). However, the most important thing about this story is that it was the inspiration for the ballet, and that makes it expressly priceless and worthy of more than five measly golden stars.

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the storytelling took time for me to understand. If felt like it bounced around a lot from the storyteller, to the story with Mary, to side stories and adventures. It just didn’t have the greatest flow of story for me personally. The song "Fall Out" by English band Mansun from their 1998 album Six heavily relies on the celesta theme from the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. In honor of the young heroine, a celebration of sweets from around the world is produced: chocolate from Spain, coffee from Arabia, [28] [29] tea from China, [30] and candy canes from Russia [31] all dance for their amusement; Marzipan shepherdesses perform on their flutes; [32] Mother Ginger has her children, the Polichinelles, emerge from under her enormous hoop skirt to dance; a string of beautiful flowers perform a waltz. [33] [34] To conclude the night, the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier perform a dance. [35] [36] One critic complained that the ballet was in bad taste because characters in Act 2 looked like food from a pastry shop. Another complained that Ivanov's "Waltz of the Snowflakes" was taken from ballets by Petipa. [15] Tchaikovsky however thought that the staging was very beautiful, so much so that his eyes grew tired looking at it. [16] The short story was published in 1853 in the U.S. in a translation by Mrs. St. Simon in New York by D. Appleton and Company with illustrations by Albert H. Jocelyn.

This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils. The first complete recording of the ballet in digital stereo was issued in 1985, by RCA Red Seal featuring Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. RCA later reissued the recording in a multi-CD set containing complete recordings of Tchaikovsky's two other ballets, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. This is the marvellously strange and creative novella that Tchaikovsky's ballet is based on. And it is just as surreal as the ballet - but ballets are surreal by nature, while books needn't be. Like a darker, Continental forerunner to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It makes zero sense, but is more than evocative enough to make up for it.