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Monthly Archives: December 2014

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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 13, 2014 7:16 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #13: Music for stretching

    Imagine – if you’re a dancer – that the curtain’s gone down on Act I, the house lights have gone up, and the audience are heading ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 12, 2014 7:17 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #12: Wrong notes

    “You should play more wrong notes, then people wouldn’t notice so much.” That was the kind, but impractical advice given to me by a good friend in ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 11, 2014 7:51 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #11: Getting the phrasing wrong

    As I’ve already mentioned in posts about  the difficulties of playing slow threes (like mazurkas and polonaises), where you can end up accidentally thinking in six-count ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 10, 2014 6:40 am
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    Confessions of an anxious pianist day #10: The Polonaise

    About once a year, I buy a Fry’s Turkish Delight bar, a slab of faintly fragrant sugary pink jelly covered in chocolate. It has no nutritional value, ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 9, 2014 8:02 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #9: Oh no! What was that?!

    You sit at the piano, and watch the teacher address the class, rattling off directions, her hands a blur as she marks movements with her hands at ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 8, 2014 7:35 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #8: The dreaded slow mazurka pirouette

    The moment I see a teacher marking a pirouette that has a massive, sweeping balancé in it, I know there’s trouble ahead. Like the dreaded 2/4 sissonne of ...
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Welcome to my site. I mostly write about playing for ballet (I'm a pianist), but the further back you go, the stupider the posts get, so I wouldn't recommend trawling through the archives for treasure.

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