Dead all,
A shameless "plug," my excuse being that I participated in making this, and my participation was fully literary!
"Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker: The Music Game" is a computer game based on -- you guessed right! -- Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. This company that I wrote for makes music games based on classical music. The whole enterprise is based on the now proprietary (patent-pending) platform under which can take any piece of music and scramble it in a particular way to make an intriguing computer-based puzzle. And you don't need to know notes or have any musical education to solve it -- you unscramble it by ear. Meant for ages 4-104.
Check it out at this site:
www.KidsMusicStage.com
There are links to several product reviews on the page -- they are all raves. This is the next generation of interactive musical entertainment - you haven't seen its like yet! Kids and adults alike fall in love with this stuff, and I greatly enjoyed contributing to it.
What was my contribution? I wrote all the voice-over and text that appears on the CD, including little rhymed poems for children about musical instruments, an educational Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments (which explains about 20 instruments!), and all the game rules. I tried to write it all as well as I could!
Cheers and season's greetings!
Philip Nikolayev
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