Playing for ballet class
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Now that’s what I call…Bournonville
The most exciting news I’ve heard in a long time – Dance Books have just announced the release of a 9-CD set of “Music to the ... -
Musipedia – name that tune!
Possibly the most amazing discovery I ever made on the web – Musipedia. I needed to find the name of a folk song that I know ... -
1841 and all that
I finally made the effort to park my car in Longham Post Office on the way back to London this morning and photograph Longham United Reformed ... -
Institutional Racism & Swanilda’s Friends
Another day at the University of London Library [see earlier post on Czerny], this time, to retrieve some dances from Tchaikovsky’s opera Cherevichki which were used ... -
Italian ballets
That old party game ‘name five famous Belgians’ is a little unfair on the Belgians. A more difficult game is ‘name five Italian ballets’, I’ve discovered. ... -
Skip, change of step
I often feel extraordinarily privileged to have such illustrious friends in the ballet world, particularly when I want an answer to a simple question, and can ...