the Nutcracker Suite (dance of the sugar plum fairy)

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Why is this music so haunting and spooky like? It's more suited to a Halloween tune than a Christmas one.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8At8zfh_o3E[/youtube]

It's probably because it's a story about toys that come to life,
apart from the fact that it's just the most Beautiful, beautiful piece of music that was ever written!

His sister died just before he was commissioned to compose it,
so that's why it is so melancholy.

I have been listening to it all morning while I mucked around on WP.
Nice reminder, digger!
Thanks!

Warm a time as christmas is, it's the celebration of a zombie-enabled prophet's birth, overlayed onto what was originally a celebration of the longest, darkest day of the year.

Although personally I find this fairly mischievous but kind of serene music quite suited to fairies.