Episode 37: See the Music: Theme and Variations
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NYCB Music Director Andrew Litton hosts a new See the Music edition of City Ballet The Podcast, exploring the score to Balanchine\\u2019s ode to classical dance, Theme and Variations. Set to the final, eponymous movement of Tschaikovsky\\u2019s Orchestral Suite No. 3, the ballet, as Litton describes, corresponds to the many shifts in tone, pace, and featured instrumentation in the piece\\u2019s twelve variations. Highlighted by piano demonstrations and anecdotes from Tschaikovsky\\u2019s letters to his benefactress, Litton provides a tour through this musical\\u2014and dance\\u2014tour de force. (15:34)
Music:
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55 (1884) by Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky