The lights over the audience dim. The sound of the orchestra rises from the pit. As the curtain begins to rise, the Musical Arts Center is taken into a magical world, the world of “The Nutcracker.” ...
Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” contains some of the most beloved and familiar melodies in the Western world. In 1960, seven decades after it debuted, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn arranged the ...