Weeks ahead of “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ ” the Sugar Plum Fairy is getting ready to entertain. Her wand at hand, she has magic to command. At her palace in the Land of the Sweets the ...

Jazz NutCracker, my jazz adaptation of "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set to the Fleischer Studio classic short "Christmas Come But Once A Year," from 1936.

In the 1890s, when the Russian composer Tchaikovsky was preparing to write the music for the ballet that would become his holiday classic, “The Nutcracker,” he encountered a brand-new instrument: the ...

In a return to a classic, time-honored ballet tradition, the Jacobs School of Music’s Opera and Ballet Theater will present ...