A year of ballet playing cards #17: A six eight allegro (4h) from Verdi’s “Jerusalem”
Download Verdi – Ballet music to Jersusalem (Act 3, 16: No 2, Pas de deux) (free piano score pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards There’s a…
IT tip: how to stop Guardian links from displaying 404 in Facebook posts
I can’t remember when this started, but for a while now, if you paste a link into Facebook from the Guardian, you get the 404 page above as a thumbnail.…
A year of ballet playing cards #16 : Esmeralda male variation music (3h)
Download the score of the Esmeralda male variation music (free pdf) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards You can never have enough grand allegro, and this is…
Trissie’s dollies: tunes, travel, gardens and a Blue Shawl
Last year I either discovered, or re-remembered, that my friend, contemporary and colleague Julia Richter had been taught by Rosemary Barnes, who was a friend and colleague of my piano…
A year of playing cards #33: A deathly slow waltz (7c)
Download free piano pdf score Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Thanks to Grant Kennedy in Australia for this as an idea for adage/ronds de jambe, anything…
How powerful is satire? Hollaender, Hitler, “The Book of Mormon,” and Nigel Farage
I finally got to see The Book of Mormon yesterday, and it was everything I’d expect a Matt Stone and Trey Parker production to be. Orgazmo – their 1997 film…