Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003)
A personal tribute to Malcolm Williamson, great friend and musical inspiration, mentor, composition teacher, and ballet educator.
John O’Brien
John O’Brien is probably the greatest inspiration and teacher I had in my life as a ballet accompanist. This is Dec. 3rd in my dance inspirations advent calendar, in which…
Gillian Cornish
This is Dec. 2nd in my dance inspirations advent calendar. Opened already: December 1st On January 1st 2006 it will be 20 years to the day that I met Gillian…
Woytek Lowski (Wojciech Wiesiołowski ) [1939-1995]
A tribute to Woytek Lowski, inspirational ballet teacher, wonderful person, and a huge influence on me as a pianist for class.
My 2005 advent calendar: dance inspirations
As a dance musician, hardly a day goes past when I don’t call on the wisdom & inspiration of some of the fantastic people I’ve known & worked with in…
The Rain-mate revisited
Little did I know, when Christopher Hampson and I went in search of the rain-mate 8 years ago (see this old entry), that of all the blog topics that might…