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Tag: Advent calendar 2014a

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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet classTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    May 14, 2016 4:21 pm
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    Confessions of an anxious pianist #26: Same or different music on the other side?

    Although the “anxious ballet pianist” series is officially over, I’m adding one more post now, because I realised today that after thirty years of playing for ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 1, 2015 12:03 pm
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    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 ...
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    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2014 4:59 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #25: 9/8

    I was tempted to put the ballet-class equivalent of the Holy Family on the 25th of this advent calendar, to finish off the series with a heart-warming sentimental twist ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 24, 2014 12:07 pm
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #24: Happy birthday

    Special occasions make me nervous. Take birthdays, for example. It’s someone’s birthday, and so one of the dancers comes up before class and says “Can you ...
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    By Jonathan Still
    December 23, 2014 2:15 pm
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #23: Metre-less counts

    An absence of metre is kind of cool. It’s like decorating a room white, having no books or furniture, and hanging Malevich’s White on White on the wall. You have ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 22, 2014 10:39 pm
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #22: Inappropriate music choices

    When I say inappropriate, I don’t mean in 4/4 rather than 3/4, or a barcarole instead of a mazurka. I mean inappropriate in the sense of ...
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