Bugatti Step by Jaroslav Ježek, and the joy of musical journeys
I said it had been a week for finding things: well, it’s not over yet., apparently. The Bugatti Step As this will be a longish ramble about finding music, I’ll…
Grands pas des éventails from Le Corsaire: some piano materials
A link to the piano score of the Grand pas des éventails in Le Corsaire, and interpolated solo from Pygmalion
Franz’s solo in Coppélia: yet another interpolation (Bol’shoi version)
Who knows what this is? Answers below! Click here to download Franz’s interpolated solo from Coppélia for piano (free pdf) After I’d finished that last post on teachers and their…
A year of ballet playing cards #54 (Red Joker): Odalisques from Le Corsaire
Download Odalisques piano score (free PDF) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards It’s that time of year again, ballet summer schools season, when teachers are supposed to…
Why I’m not on Facebook/Twitter any more
It’s been a bit like smoking: I had tried a couple of weeks without Facebook in Prague in 2014, which was a good practice run for Lent 2016, when turned…
10 fabulous ballet women for International Women’s Day 2018
One of the reasons I started blogging was because I was frustrated that journalists and historians tended to focus only on the big names: the stars, the directors, the choreographers,…