A year of ballet playing cards #42: Diable à Quatre male variation – big 2/4 jumpy thing (D3)
This solo from Adam's "Diable à quatre" is great for those bouncy medium/big sissonne-type allegros in 2/4.
Daniel Levitin on the perils of multitasking
“Instead of reaping the big rewards that come from sustained, focused effort, we instead reap empty rewards from completing a thousand little sugar-coated tasks.” That’s a quote from a great…
A year of ballet playing cards #41: A juicy csárdás – Ünneplö (“Festive”) by Rózsavölgyi (D2)
Diamonds: a set of pieces in 4: See the Year of Ballet Playing Cards information page D2-Ünneplö (Celebration or “Festive”) by Mark Rózsavölgyi) – click to download the file (pdf)…
A year of ballet playing cards: #40 The Csárdás (1D)
Diamonds: a set of pieces in 4: See the Year of Ballet Playing Cards information page 1D (#40): Liszt Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D flat (opening) – Download file…
About a Year of Ballet Playing Cards
A Year of Ballet Playing Cards is a collection of 52 pieces of downloadable sheet music for ballet class with a blog entry attached. That’s one piece a week, starting…
Happy 2015: A new year’s ramble about Black Swan and other ballet anomalies
As it’s the first day of a new year, I’ve decided to do something about one of the greatest annoyances in my list of ballet-pianist anxieties: the Black Swan female…