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“TALES OF TCHAIKOVSKY” by Des Kelly   Something completely different, especially for the members and readers of eLanka. This is a rare marriage indeed. Something I feel very privileged to write about.  The love I feel for both “Country/Classical” music intermingled together, music, that I feel will thrill the hearts of all of you, out there, who enjoy “great music” no matter from which source.      First, as I did, with another superb Composer of the years gone by, Johann Strauss, I shall endeavour to bring in some hitherto unknown facts about another extremely famous Composer, TCHAIKOVSKY. Pjotr llyitch, born in 1840 and died in 1893, was known world-wide as the greatest of all Russian Masters (of Music).      He was a boy, just six years old, when he had been permitted to listen to music, (yes folks, it was back in 1846, and Russian children had to be ...