Famous choreographer Marius Petipa wanted to compose the music for the tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by Hoffman. So in 1891 he assigned Peter Tchaikovsky to compose this music. One year later the debut performance of “The Nutcracker” failed. Audience didn’t like it. So did the critics. After that time “The Nutcracker has been one of the most frequently world scale performed ballet. This ballet is being performed in every ballet company. Why this bad started ballet has such a success today? The explanation is simple. In 1950s another great choreographer George Balanchine produced a fresh version of “The Nutcracker” that is widely used today.
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Beethoven loved a lot of women and was never out of love. After Beethoven’s death the love letter of Beethoven was found among his documents. The given letter is very popular and frequently referred to in television, movies and advertisements. There is no name and address of the person to whom it was meant. No one knows the year when it was written and whether it was sent or not. The only thing that is known is that the letter was written on the sixth and seventh of July. This letter shows another side of Beethoven. And if you have not read it you will get a real pleasure by reading it.

Fruitful and changeable composer and pianist, Lukas Foss, died at his home at the age of eighty six. Notwithstanding the fact that Lukas was an immigrant from Germany from the very beginning he was deemed as an essential person in the blossoming world of American composition. He protected the works of his colleagues. Mr. Foss liked to investigate the byways of avant-garde. He concentrated on different methods and digital music, as well as on minimalism and impromptu. While he used one style and another his voice remained distinguished. That was because he didn’t believed to rules and never stuck to those approaches he admitted.

Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble will perform in six cities of North America. The program they will perform will cover the topic of Classical Arabian Story of Layla and Majnun. The Silk Road Ensemble is an organization that was founded by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma as a nonprofit, cultural and artistic educational formation in 1998. “Within a decade our group has joined the lovely customs and new knowledge by examining cultural intersections”- says Yo-Yo Ma. Music masters together with Yo-Yo Ma will perform two programs showing the differences in cultures of the countries linked by Silk Road. The ensemble uses western and non-western instruments.