Sunday, December 7, 2008

12 Days of Christmas Favorites - Day 7

Today's favorite is The Nutcracker.

I'm referring to the music since I've never seen the ballet performed. There's just something so fun about hearing Tchaikovsky's music.

However, on Friday night, David and I attended an interesting performance of The Nutcracker. The arrangement was done by Duke Ellington, so most of it was very upbeat. I'll admit that a few of the tunes were not immediately recognizable to me, and the program had variations of the original titles, so I have to actually look at the real titles to figure out which songs they are.

I'm not sure if I would do this as an annual thing, but it was definitely worth going to at least once, just to hear a different rendition.

I think it's time to go pop the CD in...

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