Listening Room Series 1 for Beginning Primary (Elementary)

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Let’s Make a Picture – Extension Activities
We have some videos for you to watch around the pieces in today’s lesson. Enjoy!

Back to the Lesson (Let’s Make a Picture)


Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (from The Nutcracker Suite 1892)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian 1840-1893, romantic period)

The famous Disney Version from Fantasia

Nina Kaptsova – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy – Bolshoi Balet

The Royal Ballet (from the Royal Opera House London)


Russian Dance (aka Trepak, from The Nutcracker Suite 1892)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian 1840-1893, romantic period)

Russian Dance done by the Russians – from the famous Bolshoi Ballet

Valentina Lisitsa’s fingers do the dancing!

Boys from the Boston Ballet


Hungarian Dance #5  (1869)
Johannes Brahms (German 1833-1897, romantic period)

… danced by some of the dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet
with the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra

Lucie does it on her school recorder 😊

More about Lucie and her family
At home with Lucie Horsch from The Netherlands

Who says Brahms ain’t cool!
Matej Meštrović & Expresto Live from Kerempuh

Hungarian Dancing – flashmob in Budapest

… and some more Hungarians dancing …


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