Renee Montagne talks with Miles Hoffman about the history of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. Hoffman is the violist of the American Chamber Players, and authored The NPR Classical Music Companion.

The Nutcracker, with its wonderful score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The Nutcracker, with its wonderful score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, has over the years become the perfect Christmas holiday ...

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Cleveland Ballet dancers rehearse five hours each day, five days per week, for eight weeks. With a few extra hours here and there, dancers spend more than 200 hours practicing their roles. While ...

It takes some doing in this country to be more than about 25 miles from a production of “The Nutcracker” during the Christmas season. The ballet has become as American as Friday Night Lights and as ...

Let’s throw it way back to 1892, when a man named Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote one of the most famous ballet suites in the world. “The Nutcracker Ballet” is one of my favorite pieces because it ...

Well, of course, you have seen Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” before. You went with your grandmother, yes? She dressed you up in bobby socks and a big red bow when you were nine, is that ...

The Iowa Dance Theatre will perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s "The Nutcracker" ballet on Dec. 17-18 at the Des Moines Civic Center. Des Moines’ first "Nutcracker" was performed by the Des Moines ...

During a Christmas Eve party and a young girl, Clara, being given a nutcracker doll by her godfather, Drosselmeyer. Later in the evening when Clara sleeps, she finds herself in the midst of the ...