Set to a compilation of music inspired by Tchaikovsky’s original score, “The Nutcracker Suite & Spicy” fuses ballet, tap, jazz, ballroom and hip-hop techniques to breathe new life and ...

NUTCRACKER SUITE & SPICY is at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St. in Hartford, Dec. 9 to 10, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m. Admission is $30.

The music of “Nutcracker Suite” comes with creative liberties – which can also be said for Tchaikovsky’s work. The plot for his ballet is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 short ...

Spike Jones and his City Slickers, “The Nutcracker Suite (With Apologies to Tchaikovsky)” (1945). This was an extremely ambitious undertaking for the maestro of mayhem, with the work reimagined for an ...

Indeed, The Nutcracker Suite was set to Tchaikovsky’s original music arranged by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn with a larger-than-life set design that created a storybook atmosphere.

Shot at the White House for the holiday season, it’s an excerpt from “The Nutcracker Suite,” a production by the award-winning Dorrance Dance, led by Michelle Dorrance.

But although the "Nutcracker Suite" music was always popular, the actual ballet didn't become a U.S. holiday tradition until 1954, when George Balanchine choreographed his famous version for the ...

“It’s amazing music,” he said Thursday in a telephone interview, noting that the 17-piece professional Scranton Jazz Festival Big Band’s production of the “Swingin’ Nutcracker Suite ...

The film was scored by James Newton Howard, who has created the music for a wide range of films including Pretty Woman, The Dark Knight, The Hunger Games films, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to ...

The Holmes' took Tchaikovsky’s music, including his famous holiday tune the Nutcracker Suite, put comic music to it and made it their own.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra played Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker," with Maurice Cohn at the helm, at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.

The music and many elements of the story will be unchanged. The party scene, children and mice, snow and fantasy, the Nutcracker, and other familiar images remain.