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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • On-screen commentary from pianist Joshua Piper during YouTube ballet class

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

  • “They would have…” — Coppélia, Scotch snaps and class (the social kind)

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Yearly Archives: 2011

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  • Advent calendar
    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2011 3:09 pm
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    IT tips #25: Use a notebook for the big stuff in life

    Use  conventional tools if they’re better suited to the job at hand. Notebooks (real notebooks, not the electronic kind) are cheap, robust, durable, don’t need electricity, ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2011 9:47 am
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    4

    The Steamboat, the Nutcracker and Bon voyage, cher Dumollet

    On Christmas day of all days, I’ve had possibly the most interesting comment ever posted on my blog with regard to the score of the Nutcracker. ...
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  • Advent calendar
    By Jonathan Still
    December 24, 2011 7:26 am
    144
    0

    IT tips #24: How to make time-saving templates in Word

    A real template in Word is a thing of beauty and magic that can be used to save you a lot of time and make your ...
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  • Advent calendar
    By Jonathan Still
    December 23, 2011 11:56 pm
    195
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    IT tips #23: How to hide your Facebook posts from particular people

    Sometimes you want to share something on Facebook that you know might offend a person in your network because of their particular views or life circumstances. ...
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  • Advent calendar
    By Jonathan Still
    December 22, 2011 8:12 am
    1189
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    IT tips #22: In MS Word, how to put a landscape page into a portrait document

    NB: Please read the 26/1/2016 update at the end of this page before you try the method below! This is the problem: you need to insert a large table in ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 21, 2011 10:22 am
    133
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    Trolololo sheet music for piano

    Before you get excited, I haven’t got it, but I have found the first page of it here.  I tried searching for the original title “я ...
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  • DanceMusic

    Which was the first ballet to be rehearsed to piano?

    It's hard to find out when people first rehearsed ballet with piano rather than violin. An article from 1963 might have the answer.
  • IT

    OCR errors and ballet

    Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
  • Music

    Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

    Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class

    More background on the party scene song in The Nutcracker

    Since writing about Bon Voyage Cher Dumollet nine years ago, I've found out a lot more. Here are some sources.
  • DanceDance LegendsPeople

    Kostrovitskaya’s career as a plasterer

    In these days when artists are insulted by the idea of having to retrain as something else, let's take a moment to remember Vera Kostrovitskaya, famous pedagogue—and plasterer, restorer of ...
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