Warm-up à la Jackie Barratt: – Georgia on my mind
This is day 1 in my Dance Inspirations Advent Calendar (II) I’d only have to play a couple of chords of Georgia on my mind for warm-up and Jackie Barratt…
Welcome to Advent Calendar II
During Advent of last year, I wrote tributes to the people of the dance world who’d been an inspiration to me as a musician, and called it my Dance Inspirations…
Stir-up Sunday
It’s stir-up Sunday, and so for the first time ever, I did what you’re supposed to do and made my Christmas cake. Ironic, really, considering that I have no intention…
Jonathan’s Swimathon
I’ve been considering doing the Swimathon again for years (I last did it in 1992), and since the 2007 event has just been launched, I thought I’d sign myself up…
Dance accompaniment in the news!
Keys to the ballet: Ramona Pansegrau takes her seat as music director of the Kansas City Ballet. Heartening to see an article devoted to the joys, skills and triumphs of…
Hello & Goodbye to Berlin
To Berlin for the day with Chris to go and see my dear friend and colleague Marita Mirsalimova play the pianist in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert with Staatsballett Berlin at…