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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: ballet class accompaniment

Home›Posts Tagged "ballet class accompaniment" (Page 13)
  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 9, 2014 8:02 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #9: Oh no! What was that?!

    You sit at the piano, and watch the teacher address the class, rattling off directions, her hands a blur as she marks movements with her hands at ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 8, 2014 7:35 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #8: The dreaded slow mazurka pirouette

    The moment I see a teacher marking a pirouette that has a massive, sweeping balancé in it, I know there’s trouble ahead. Like the dreaded 2/4 sissonne of ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 7, 2014 8:10 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #7: The dreaded 2/4 sissonne

    A short but apposite entry today, because I’m off to record a whole bunch of examples of exactly what this post is about: music for that kind ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 4, 2014 10:46 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #4: Classical music

    The other side of my anxiety about not playing pop tunes for class (see yesterday’s post) is anxiety about playing stuff that’s too classical. When I say ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 3, 2014 9:48 pm
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #3: Pop songs

    I’ve got to be very careful how I put this, for fear of being taken the wrong way (see, I’m even anxious about that). So let’s ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 2, 2014 10:32 pm
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #2: Fear of repetition

    I’m relatively relaxed about repetition, because over the years a few dancers have told me that sometimes it’s nice to hear something familiar, either because they like ...
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  • DanceMusic

    Which was the first ballet to be rehearsed to piano?

    It's hard to find out when people first rehearsed ballet with piano rather than violin. An article from 1963 might have the answer.
  • IT

    OCR errors and ballet

    Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
  • Music

    Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

    Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class

    More background on the party scene song in The Nutcracker

    Since writing about Bon Voyage Cher Dumollet nine years ago, I've found out a lot more. Here are some sources.
  • DanceDance LegendsPeople

    Kostrovitskaya’s career as a plasterer

    In these days when artists are insulted by the idea of having to retrain as something else, let's take a moment to remember Vera Kostrovitskaya, famous pedagogue—and plasterer, restorer of ...
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