I hope you can help me.
I just visited your wonderful site and was very impressed. I love
Tchaikovsky's music, especially his ballet music.
I did notice once important item missing from your site and that is a
listing of Tchaikovsky's music used in certain movie soundtracks, one in
particular, from the movie The Turning Point, starring Anne
Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine.
This excellent ballet movie finally made it to DVD a couple years
ago; unfortunately, it wasn't digitally re-mastered, to bring out its
musical quality. Anyway, there is a piece of Tchaikovsky's music that
was used in a certain ballet that I'm not familiar with.
If you watch the "Gala" part of the movie (this is where various
dances from popular ballets are being performed), there is a scene where
Anne Bancroft dances to a ballet called Anna Karenina, music by
Tchaikovsky. I've never heard of Tchaikovsky writing music for Anna
Karenina; therefore, his other music may have been used for this
ballet (like choreographer George Balanchine used alot of Tchaikovsky's
music to make his ballets). Can you please tell me what is the
Tchaikovsky music being used in Anna Karenina? Is it from an Opus
or a Symphony?
Also, at the end of the movie, Lesley Browne dances to one of
Tchaikovsky's gorgeous piano pieces.
Thank you for your time and I hope you can help me with this musical
mystery.
I wish the Tchaikovsky Research continued success.
Sincerely yours,
Terry Wilcox