[Starring] Elizabeth Schooling, Pamela Foster, and Walter Gore in Pas de deux from "The Sleeping Beauty"
Polka
Oriel Ross
Songs
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum

Tchaikovsky composed the music for "The Sleeping Beauty" in 1889, a time when it was not quite the thing for a composer of standing to turn his attention to ballet. The libretto was prepared by Vsevolojsky, the Director of Imperial Theatres, and the entire three acts were written by Tchaikovsky in a few weeks.
Oriel Ross was trained at the Royal College of Music. She made her first appearance on the stage at the Regent Theatre in "The Insect Play". Since then she has had important stage and film roles - she was Orinthia in Shaw's "The Apple Cart" at the Cambridge in 1935 - and has sung in cabaret, revue, and pantomime.