The story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was ... Can you count 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 in time with the music? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (pronounced PYOT-uhr il-YEETCH chigh-KOFF-ski) wrote some ...

Of particular interest were some connections between Tchaikovsky’s third movement and his other music, particularly the “Russian Dance” in his Nutcracker Suite. The acrobatic notes and ...