This short piece appears with Dance of the Rose Maidens and Lezghinka as part of a ballet set on a collective farm.
This short piece appears with Dance of the Rose Maidens and Lezghinka as part of a ballet set on a collective farm. It appears as part of the festivities at the wedding of the ballet's title heroine to a Red Army officer in southern Armenia. Used on the Ed Sullivan show to heighten tension while plate spinners performed, for ten points, name this best-known portion of the second suite of the ballet Gayane, a xylophone-accented whirling mazurka by Aram Khatchaturian.
This short piece appears with Dance of the Rose Maidens and Lezghinka as part of a ballet set on a collective farm.
{Sabre Dance}