And, as The New York Times’s Joshua Barone reports, the way Tchaikovsky ultimately deployed the instrument in his famous “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” has echoed through musical history.

Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, featuring the celesta’s magical sound, became iconic through The Nutcracker. Initially criticized, its popularity soared via Disney’s Fantasia ...

This is the famous “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” a highlight of “The Nutcracker” and a holiday staple, born on the stage and heard today in commercials and on movie soundtracks around ...

For 20 years, National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Heather Ogden has been performing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the enduring ... National Ballet School dance in this production ...