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…
Ljubjlana, Music & Dance & a Martinovanje
Just back from the very beautiful city of Ljubljana where I was lecturing on a seminar on music for ballet teaching. On Friday I learned a new word, Martinovanje, which…
Tchaikovsky & the pink oboe
I’ve been chastised for the lack of recent updates to this weblog by a person I might describe best as an e-colleague, who I met again recently at the Sound…
Dipsy & Lala
Here they are, for all those who wanted to see pictures. The very lovely Dipsy & Lala, aged about 6 months. It’s taken this long, because they won’t keep still,…