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****More songs in Christmas/Holiday theme from page 21. Happy Holiday!! *****
The Nutcracker 芭蕾舞劇
2012 12月18日是 经典芭蕾舞音乐剧《胡桃夹子》120周年 - 作品首演於1892年12月18日,聖彼得堡馬林斯基劇院。劇本由馬利烏斯·皮提帕編寫，舞蹈編排由劉·伊凡諾夫負責。
I have found few youtube videos recording the Nutcracker Christmas season performing in Berline Philharmoica Orchestra with conductor Semyon Bychkov. Please enjoy!
**Video1: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ... 0B5&index=1
**Video2: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite No. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ... 8A9&index=2
《胡桃夾子》是柴可夫斯基編寫的一個芭蕾舞劇。原作為E·T·A·霍夫曼的一部叫作《胡桃夾子與老鼠王》的故事。柴可夫斯基後來根據大仲馬改編的版本加譜了芭蕾舞的音樂，成為現時的所見的版本。芭蕾舞剧《胡桃夹子》是世界上最优秀的芭蕾舞剧之一，它之所以能吸引千千万万的观众，一方面是由于它有华丽壮观的场面、诙谐有趣的表演，但更重要的原因是柴科夫斯基的音乐赋予舞剧以强烈的感染力。《胡桃夹子》剧本是根据德国名作家霍夫曼的童话《胡桃夹子和鼠王》改编的，全剧共分两幕，描绘了儿童的独特天地。舞剧的音乐充满了单纯而神秘的神话色彩，具有强烈的儿童音乐特色。它是聖誕節的傳統節目，老少皆宜，而且歷演不衰。 Biography Via http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%A1%83%E5%A4%B9%E5%AD%90
Biography Via http://www.baike.com/wiki/%E3%80 ... 9%E5%AD%90%E3%80%8B
关于胡桃夹子工具的介绍
在柴可夫斯基的《胡桃夹子》中出现的玩具兵是来自于德国的一种传统工艺品，习惯上把它称为德国胡桃夹子German Nutcrackers。
最初，它和普通胡桃夹子一样，都是用来夹胡桃的（具体方法：取一颗坚果〔如花生，榛子等〕，将胡桃夹子公仔背后的开关拉起，随着开关的拉起，公仔的嘴巴会张开，然后将坚果放入公仔嘴里，将公仔背后的开关合上，坚果的壳就被压开了）；因为它的可爱的样子深受见过它的人的喜爱，渐渐的人们开始把它当装饰品陈列在家中（在欧美地区，每当圣诞节来临的时候，人们都会将采购来的德国胡桃夹子用于圣诞装饰）；据说它是能带来契机和幸运的守护神，它们以裸露的牙齿面对魔鬼和恶灵，令它们心惊肉跳，得以保护受保护者的家族成员的安宁。
劇情
一百年前的一個聖誕節平安夜，在一个名叫日耳曼的小鎮上，斯塔爾鮑姆博士的家中舉行慶祝晚會，親朋好友紛紛來到。他家的兩個孩子克拉拉和弗裡茲帶著讚歎的眼光看著美麗的聖誕樹。參議員杜塞梅爾送給他的教女克拉拉一份特別的聖誕禮物－軍官造型的胡桃夾子。而淘氣的弟弟弗裡茲也想要這件禮物。他要在克拉拉手裡把胡桃夾子搶過去，卻不小心把它給弄壞了。克拉拉傷心得哭了，但杜塞梅爾很快又把它修好了，又笑著幫克拉拉擦乾了眼淚。入夜了，晚會結束了，客人們也陸續離去，兩個孩子也被帶到臥室去睡覺。可是克拉拉怎麼也睡不著，她偷偷下了床，輕手輕腳地下了樓梯，要去看一看她心愛的胡桃夾子。到了大廳，她找到了胡桃夾子並把它緊緊抱在懷裡爬到沙發上，沒想到朦朦朧朧就睡著了。
這時大鐘敲了十二下，大廳裡黑影聳動，突然間一大群老鼠闖進了客廳，到處亂竄，並開始攻擊克拉拉。這時老爺爺杜塞梅爾突然出現，告訴克拉拉，胡桃夾子能保護她，接著又神奇消失了。此時大廳裡閃起五顏六色的光。聖誕樹不斷長高。胡桃夾子活過來了，並領著他的一群玩具同老鼠兵作戰。但老鼠們很強大，胡桃夾子的軍隊處於劣勢。克拉拉撿起一把劍，衝向老鼠王並給了它致命的一擊。老鼠們抬著它們的國王敗走。勝負已分。
胡桃夾子也受了重傷，突然奇跡出現，胡桃夾子康復了，而且變成了一個英俊的王子，並要帶克拉拉到一座去糖果王國。他們穿過白雪覆蓋的聖誕樹林（森林之行）。兩旁來了一群雪花仙子哼著歌跳著舞（雪花圓舞曲）為他們伴行，王子和白雪女王跳了一段的雙人舞。讓克拉拉看得如癡如醉。之後他們繼續前行。
王子與克拉拉來到了「糖果王國」宮殿。衛兵在夾道等候。王子和克拉拉乘著一輛雪橇來到宮殿前。王子向女王講述勇敢的克拉拉如何殺死了老鼠王並救了他的命。這時，大臣出來歡迎。王子組織了一系列舞蹈以回報克拉拉。來自異國他鄉的演員陸續跳出異彩紛呈的民族舞蹈。接著花仙子伴著著名的《花之圓舞曲》跳出了一段華爾茲。
看完表演后王子送克拉拉回家，劇的最后是第二天早上克拉拉抱著心愛的胡桃夾子在沙發上醒來，發現自己做一個好夢（終曲）。
About The Nutcraker(by christomacin)
The Nutcracker is one of the composer's most popular compositions. The music belongs to the Romantic Period and contains some of his most memorable melodies, several of which are frequently used in television and film. The Trepak, or Russian dance, is one of the most recognizable pieces in the ballet, along with the famous Waltz of the Flowers and March, as well as the ubiquitous Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The ballet contains surprisingly advanced harmonies and a wealth of melodic invention that is (to many) unsurpassed in ballet music. Nevertheless, the composer's reverence for Rococo and late 18th century music can be detected in passages such as the Overture, the "Entrée des parents", and "Tempo di Grossvater" in Act I.
Tchaikovsky is said to have argued with a friend who wagered that the composer could not write a melody based on the notes of the scale in an octave in sequence. Tchaikovsky asked if it mattered whether the notes were in ascending or descending order, and was assured it did not. This resulted in the Adagio from the Grand pas de deux, which, in the ballet, nearly always immediately follows the Waltz of the Flowers. A story is also told that Tchaikovsky's sister had died shortly before he began composition of the ballet, and that his sister's death influenced him to compose a melancholy, descending scale melody for the adagio of the Grand Pas de Deux.
One novelty in Tchaikovsky's original score was the use of the celesta, a new instrument Tchaikovsky had discovered in Paris. He wanted it genuinely for the character of the Sugar Plum Fairy to characterize her because of its "heavenly sweet sound". It appears not only in her "Dance", but also in other passages in Act II. (However, he first wrote for the celesta in his symphonic ballad The Voyevoda the previous year.) Tchaikovsky also uses toy instruments during the Christmas party scene. Tchaikovsky was proud of the celesta's effect, and wanted its music performed quickly for the public, before he could be "scooped." Everyone was enchanted.
Although the original ballet is only about 85 minutes long if performed without applause or an intermission, and therefore much shorter than either Swan Lake or The Sleeping Beauty, some modern staged performances have omitted or re-ordered some of the music, or inserted selections from elsewhere, thus adding to the confusion over the suites. In fact, most of the very famous versions of the ballet have had the order of the dances slightly re-arranged, if they have not actually altered the music. For instance, the 1954 George Balanchine New York City Ballet version adds to Tchaikovsky's score an entr'acte that the composer wrote for Act II of The Sleeping Beauty, but which is now seldom played in productions of that ballet. It is used as a transition between the departure of the guests and the battle with the mice. Nearly all of the CD and LP recordings of the complete ballet present Tchaikovsky's score exactly as he originally conceived it.
Tchaikovsky was less satisfied with The Nutcracker than with The Sleeping Beauty. (In the film Fantasia, commentator Deems Taylor observes that he "really detested" the score.) Tchaikovsky accepted the commission from Vsevolozhsky but did not particularly want to write the ballet (though he did write to a friend while composing it: "I am daily becoming more and more attuned to my task").
Tchaikovsky made a selection of eight of the numbers from the ballet before the ballet's December 1892 première, forming The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, intended for concert performance. The suite was first performed, under the composer's direction, on 19 March 1892 at an assembly of the St. Petersburg branch of the Musical Society. The suite became instantly popular (according to Men of Music "every number had to be repeated"), but the complete ballet did not begin to achieve its great popularity until after the George Balanchine staging became a hit in New York City. The suite became very popular on the concert stage, and was featured in Disney's Fantasia. The Nutcracker Suite should not be mistaken for the complete ballet. The outline below represents the selection and sequence of the Nutcracker Suite culled by the composer.
I. Miniature Overture
II. Danses caractéristiques
a. Marche
b. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [ending altered from ballet-version]
c. Russian Dance (Trepak)
d. Arabian Dance
e. Chinese Dance
f. Reed-Flutes
III. Waltz of the Flowers
Tchaikovsky also made a second suite, less well known and less frequently played, of some of the other numbers:
Act I, Tableau I: Nos. 4 & 5
Act II: Adagio from the Grand Pas de Deux
Act II: Introduction, Scene Dansante, and Spanish Dance
Act II: Final Waltz and Apotheosis
**The 3rd video displays the musical scene of The Nutcracker Battles the Mouse King
At the stroke of midnight Clara wakes up to a frightening scene. The house, the tree and the toys seem to be getting larger. Is she shrinking? Out of nowhere large mice dressed in army uniforms, lead by the Mouse King, begin to circle the room while the toys and Christmas tree come to life. Clara's Nutcracker groups the soldier toys into battle formation and fights the mouse army. The Mouse King traps the Nutcracker in the corner, but the Nutcracker can't overcome the Mouse King's strength. Clara makes a desperate move to save her Nutcracker from defeat and throws her slipper at the Mouse King. She hits him directly in the head! The Nutcracker is able to overcome the stunned Mouse King and claims victory. The mice army quickly carries away their King.
Clara falls onto the Nutcracker's bed, over-whelmed by the moment. As angels and delightful music hover over their heads, the bed turns into a magical sleigh, floating higher and higher.
**Video 3: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (The Nutcracker Battles the Mouse King)
Following the battle with the Mouse King, The Nutcracker is transformed into a human prince (who looks strikingly similar to Drosselmeyer's nephew). He gets on Clara's sleigh and drives through a snowy forest where the snowflakes turn into dancing maidens.
After their magical journey through the snow forest, they come to their destination in the Land of Sweets. Clara can't believe her eyes; ladyfinger mountains topped with whipped cream whiter than snow, sweetly glazed flowers and butter-cream frosting everywhere she looks. Upon their arrival, they are greeted by the Sugar Plum Fairy. As they reenact the night's events, the Sugar Plum Fairy becomes impressed with Clara's bravery and the Nutcracker's heroism. In their honor, the Sugar Plum Fairy takes them inside the Candy Castle and throws a lavish festival. They are treated like royalty and presented with every imaginable sweet. Shortly thereafter, the dancing begins.
**Video 4
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - The Christmas Party scene
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