January 8, 2015 5:20 am | Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Dance Music

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.
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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.
Music Musicology Playing 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.
Dance Dance Legends People

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 ...