100 tips for working with pianists #1: Give feedback
It doesn’t matter how experienced the pianist is, or how inexperienced you are – give feedback. When a pianist plays something you like, something that works well for an exercise,…
June 2007: 100 tips for working with ballet pianists
It’s June, and for me that means quite a few sessions for students on working with music and musicians. You can turn ‘working with pianists’ into a subject, and I…
Plumbing the depths
OK, it’s a bit childish, but I thought this was quite a funny number plate for a plumber. Nothing to do with music, IT or dance, but I was keen…
Thank you, Mobile Cycle Service!
www.mobilecycleservice.co.uk Picture it – two miles from work on the Friday morning before a bank holiday, and the back axle on my bike snapped. On the 50-minute trek from Wandsworth…
Anton Simon’s Souvenir de Bal and that Corsaire variation
For year’s I’ve been intrigued by the music for the female variation from Le Corsaire (the one with the Italian fouettés at the end), noting that just very occasionally, you…
RIP Dejere Kebede-Tulu
Surely one of the saddest stories to hit the news: an inquest has recorded an open verdict on the death of the brilliant Ethiopian athlete Dejere Kebede-Tulu. He fled to…