I made the head by baking some gingerbread on the inside of two muffin cups. I then shaved off the tops and glued them together to create a head shape. Many famous conductors of the twentieth century made recordings of the suite, but not of the complete ballet. These include Arturo Toscanini, Sir Thomas Beecham, Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Sir Neville Marriner, Robert Shaw, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sir Georg Solti, Leopold Stokowski, Zubin Mehta, and John Williams. The arms were made the same way as the legs. I rolled raw gingerbread over some dowel rods, baked it in the oven, sanded it down with my sander, and covered it in ginger clay. I drilled small holes in the side of the body and the sides of the arms to attach them with bucatini pasta. I cut one of his arms at an angle, twisted it, and reattached it together so it was at a 90 degree angle. As I have with the majority of my other gingerbread creations, I’ve put together a post with as much information on this project as I possibly could. Because of the level of stress I was under and the time crunch, I failed to take as many photos of the small details as I would have liked, but I think I have enough here to make the read worth your while. So, let’s get started.

Nutcrackers - Gisela Graham

Soviet ed., where they are printed in the original French with added Russian translation in editorial footnotes The song "Fall Out" by English band Mansun from their 1998 album Six heavily relies on the celesta theme from the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. In fact, I ended up with very smooth but rustic looking gingerbread wood planks that appeared worn and old. I used a combination of brown and ivory food coloring mixed with vodka to give the base a nice deep color.Dancers of the Perm Opera Ballet Theatre (2017). Вальс снежинок из балета "Щелкунчик". Russia: Perm Opera Ballet Theatre. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. After the gingerbread cooled, I used my scroll saw again to trim the top, bottom, and sides of the gingerbread pieces. Then I glued them to one another, using the tylose glue, to create a gingerbread cylinder. I cut small diamonds out of wafer paper as well, painting them with the gold paint, and adding oval shaped red beads of ginger clay.

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Kaufman, Sarah (13 September 2009). "Here Come Those Sugar Plums and Chestnuts". The Washington Post . Retrieved 26 November 2010. Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions. Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda (1891). Once I had my gingerbread skeleton done, I started on the details. I made a few batches of ginger clay, colored it with my Wilton gel colors, and used it to sculpt directly over the gingerbread to create the clothing. Ballet Talk [Powered by Invision Power Board]". Ballettalk.invisionzone.com. 26 November 2008. Archived from the original on 17 September 2009 . Retrieved 7 January 2009. In 2019, Mariah Carey released a normal and an a cappella version of 'Sugar Plum Fairy' entitled the 'Sugar Plum Fairy Introlude' to open and close her 25th Deluxe Anniversary Edition of Merry Christmas. [62]In 2018, Pentatonix released an a cappella arrangement of "Waltz of the Flowers" on the holiday album Christmas Is Here!. blogcritics.org". blogcritics.org. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012 . Retrieved 18 December 2012. I added a few other small embellishments I made with wafer paper. I used a decorative hole punch to cut a snowflake out of wafer paper. I painted it gold and added a small red circle of ginger clay in the center.