Duke Ellington's "the Nutcracker Suite" at Theater Rigiblick

Klaus Henner Russius reads E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Tale of the Nutcracker"
Duke Ellington and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky meet in Las Vegas, and Ellington decides to record an entire album of pieces by another composer for the first time: Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite" – course not without enriching the romantic original with swing and improvisation. This illustrious round is now joined by the fantastic exuberance of E.T.A. Hoffmann and his fairy tale of the "Nutcracker and the Mouse King". What happens next?
You can see and hear that at Theater Rigiblick. Henner Russius will be reading, accompanied by the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and under the direction of Ed Partyka....

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Klaus Henner Russius reads E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Tale of the Nutcracker"
Duke Ellington and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky meet in Las Vegas, and Ellington decides to record an entire album of pieces by another composer for the first time: Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite" – course not without enriching the romantic original with swing and improvisation. This illustrious round is now joined by the fantastic exuberance of E.T.A. Hoffmann and his fairy tale of the "Nutcracker and the Mouse King". What happens next?
You can see and hear that at Theater Rigiblick. Henner Russius will be reading, accompanied by the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and under the direction of Ed Partyka.

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