(Section E)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Julian Clifford
Tchaikovsky's ' Casse-noisette ' (Nutcracker) Suite contains some of the daintiest ballet music ever written. The whole work is, of course, much longer than the Suite, which contains only some of the best numbers, and lasts for a considerable time when presented on the stage. The story of the ballet is taken from E. T. A. Hoffmann's fantastic fairy-tale 'Nutcracker and Mouse-King ' — this Hoffmann being the Hoffmann of Offenbach's opera-and is of a type that seems very much to appeal to Russian artists and audiences.