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A year of ballet playing cards #6 (S6): A barcarole for port de bras
This romance from Bizet's opera The Pearl Fishers is great for an adage or port de bras, perhaps
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A year of ballet playing cards #6 (S6): A barcarole for port de bras
This romance from Bizet's opera The Pearl Fishers is great for an adage or port de bras, perhaps -
Me in conversation on a podcast
Out today on the Ballet Piano Podcast, an interview I did a couple of years ago. I’d forgotten what we talked about until I ... -
Music, time and politics in the ballet studio
Just published online, my chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Time in Music, "The politics of musical time in the everyday life of ... -
“On, Wisconsin!” and La Bayadère
What have La Bayadère and "On, Wisconsin!" got in common? Read on . . . -
Please do not post my free downloads on Scribd: here’s why
Scribd is a paid-for service, so please don't upload my music (which is published under a Creative Commons licence) there, if you're tempted. -
New podcast series on folk tunes and Englishness
As I’m slightly obsessed with fiddlers’ tune books, ever since I found that this is where I should have been looking all the time ... -
Poldowski’s Bloomsbury Waltz
Nicely timed for International Women’s Day, I have become completely obsessed by a single work by a composer I had never heard of until ... -
A belated world book day post: 10 things to love about Zotero
If you like books, you'll love Zotero. And it's free. Here's a post about how I like using it most.
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How I got attached to Thunderbird
We’ve all done it – you send an email saying “I’m attaching my essay/file/picture” or whatever, and then if you’re lucky, 30 seconds later, you realise that you’ve sent it without attaching it. If you’re unlucky, you wait 10 days for a response, then get all incensed at the person you wrote to, and say ...A christmas carol ballet class #16: Fondus – Once in Royal David’s City
To download the song, either right-click (Mac: ctrl+click) the player above and select ‘save audio as’, or right-click (Mac: ctrl+click) this link and select ‘save link as‘. It’s taken me this long to realise that this carol, and ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’ both begin with an anacrusis in the notation. The reason must be a dancey one, ...