A critic once said the music of French composer Leo Delibes made "no pretensions to depth." But without Delibes' ballet scores for Sylvia and Coppelia, we would not have Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty or The Nutcracker. And that was a debt that Tchaikovsky himself was happy to admit. Join Stephen Peithman for the story--and the music--on this week's Connections.
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The Delibes Connection
Why, without Leo Delibes' ballet scores for Sylvia and Coppelia, we would not have Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty or The Nutcracker.
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