Compound errors
Someone asked me last night what made me want to do a PhD in music in ballet training. I explained that one of the reasons came out of trying to…
Multi-tasking and supertasking
As you’ll know if you read my blog, I’ve got a thing about multi-tasking – I think it’s a dangerous myth, and I’ll post anything I find to keep debunking…
The list of lists
I’ve just added a new page (under the ‘Writings’ menu item) which is a list of lists of my previous posts by theme. Highly recommended if you want to navigate…
A list of ballet music surprises
Another list-on-a-page post – this time, it’s a collection of my 2009 Advent Calendar posts which were ‘musical surprises’ from the world of ballet music. The ‘surprises’ are probably one…
And ANOTHER French song in the Nutcracker
Remember yesterday I said that the middle (6/8) section of Mère Gigogne in The Nutcracker just ‘had to be’ a French song? Well, I’ve found it, thanks to a post…
Yet another French song in The Nutcracker
I don’t know how I could have left this out of my ‘borrowings in the Nutcracker’ posts. The opening tune of Mère Gigogne is the French nursery rhyme Giroflé girofla.…