Word: drosselmeir
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...year old Marie (Clara in the ballet) the merry daughter of a wealthy German noble family. On Christmas eve Marie and her brother Fritz prepare to enter the parlor of their home where piles of gifts await them. They most eagerly anticipate the annual gift of their clockmaker Godfather Drosselmeir. Drosselmeir's elaborate present almost spoils the mood of the occasion as Fritz complains bitterly when he finds that he cannot enter the castle. Marie's eye however soon is distracted from Fritz to a small table a top which stands a beautiful little man a special gift...
Hoffmann wants to be certain that we don't miss a thing. He accomplishes this with a restrained flourish. When Godfather Drosselmeir fixes the broken clock, "it came back to life and made everything happy by whirring and striking and singing merrily," Fritz receives a hobby horse gallops around the table a few times and "on dismounting he remarked that the beast was rather wild, but it didn't matter, he's break him in." As the Nutcracker's hussars battle the mice the dynamics of the struggle are special: the guns fire and "Marie saw sugar balls landing...
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