Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's actual diary observations are woven into a story about shy, awkward eleven-year-old Jenny Petroff, who shares a love of music, ballet, and America with the great composer during his 1891 visit to the New World.
Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.
Selections from Tchaikovsky's works, including "Swan Lake," "1812 Overture," and "Sleeping Beauty," highlight this fictionalized account of the Russian composer's 1891 trip to New York, based on excerpts from his diaries.