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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • “Ballerinas in the church hall”—Virginia Taylor’s thesis online

  • Judith Espinosa, the fishermen’s wives and the waltz

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

  • Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

  • “They would have…” — Coppélia, Scotch snaps and class (the social kind)

  • Franz’s solo in Coppélia: yet another interpolation (Bol’shoi version)

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Tag: ballet class accompaniment

Home›Posts Tagged "ballet class accompaniment" (Page 13)
  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 10, 2014 6:40 am
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    Confessions of an anxious pianist day #10: The Polonaise

    About once a year, I buy a Fry’s Turkish Delight bar, a slab of faintly fragrant sugary pink jelly covered in chocolate. It has no nutritional value, ...
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  • 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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  • Music

    Poldowski’s Bloomsbury Waltz

    Nicely timed for International Women’s Day, I have become completely obsessed by a single work by a composer I had never heard of until the other day: Poldowski (1879-1932), the ...
  • Music

    A belated world book day post: 10 things to love about Zotero

    If you like books, you'll love Zotero. And it's free. Here's a post about how I like using it most.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music

    For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
  • DanceMusic

    The wonderful Library of Dance

    The Library of Dance is an enormous collection of historical dance sources, including hundreds of vintage dance manuals that include tunes.
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