Chinese Dance (Tea)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

For flute and piano

In F major, range C4 to F6

In The Nutcracker’s Land of Sweets, Tea dances for Clara and the Prince: quick, bright flute runs and trills skip lightly over a bassoon figure that ticks along like a clock. Tchaikovsky conducted the suite in St Petersburg in March 1892, nine months before the whole ballet premiered.

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