The Nutcracker Overture feat Snubby J and his RimbaTubes

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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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