Song Of The Day by Eric Berman - "Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker Suite" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky" The story was inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Nutcracker and the King Of Mice" and was presented to Tchaikovsky by Marius Petipa who was maître de ballet of the Imperial Theater from Dumas. Tchaikovsky was unmoved by … [Read more...] about Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – "Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker Suite" by Tchaikovsky