The Nutcracker Suite for Piano, by Kenneth Henderson & Albert Stoutamire, pub. Trigram

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The Nutcracker Suite for Piano

Selected and arranged by Kenneth Henderson and Albert Stoutamire

Published by legacy publisher, Trigram Music in 1989.  These piano pieces are easy enough to learn and enjoyable to play for beginners or those who want to take on a 2nd instrument. For Easy/Intermediate Level Piano/Key's performer.

Nutcracker music by Peter I. Tchaikovsky was composed for ballet. There are more than twenty-five musical numbers in the original work. The composer selected a bunch of musical numbers to be performed as an orchestral concert version titled The Nutcracker Suite.

The story depicted by the Nutcracker the Nutcracker ballet is about a little girl who received many gifts at Christmas time. She dreams that her toys come to life and do fantastic things. Her favorite gift is a nutcracker which becomes a soldier prince and leads the others into battle against an army of mice. After the battle the girl is entertained at a festival where there is much dancing.

OVERTURE

MARCH

DANCE OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRIES

RUSSIAN DANCE

ARABIAN DANCE

CHINESE DANCE

DANCE OF THE REED FLUTES

WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS