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…
How to create dummy text in Word
There’s a nifty little trick in Microsoft Word which enables you to generate paragraphs of dummy text using the sentence ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. In…
When the deep purple falls
‘Dappled light’ and the thing it refers to is one of my favourite words, and so I’m never happier than this time of year when you see light like the…
Kitten on the Keys
I swear to God I didn’t set this shot up. As I was sorting out some music, I came across the famous Kitten on the Keys by Zez Confrey, and…