- What grade is Waltz of the Flowers piano?
- How hard is Waltz of the Flowers?
- Is Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker Suite?
What grade is Waltz of the Flowers piano?
Grade 4-5 full score.
How hard is Waltz of the Flowers?
Watching other choreographers' productions of “The Nutcracker,” you learn there's no number so hard to sustain as this waltz, in which the music never deviates from the basic one-two-three waltz beat for more than five jubilant minutes. Balanchine, by contrast, doesn't just rise to the challenge — he seems released.
Is Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker Suite?
The Waltz of the Flowers comes from the second act of the evergreen ballet The Nutcracker, which was first seen at the Mariinsky Theater two years later.