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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: ballet class

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  • BooksPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    October 7, 2020 4:48 pm
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    Galina Bezuglaya’s second book

    Perhaps you have to be as old as I am to be quite as excited about a book arriving from Russia, but it’s doubly exciting since ...
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  • Steal This Music by Joanna Demers
    DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    June 5, 2020 6:52 pm
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    Appeal for help: cover songs on ballet albums, and classes on YouTube

    How does monetizing ballet classes online work, for dancers and musicians? I want to know!
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 26, 2020 12:27 pm
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    Can’t tell a waltz from a tango? I have just the song for you

    “I can’t tell a waltz from a tango” would be a great title for a ballet-related music course, though in all honesty, “I can’t tell a ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    June 27, 2019 3:28 pm
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    Presentation at DANSOX summer school, Oxford, 7th July

    A packed and interesting programme of lectures/events at the DANSOX summer school in Oxford coming up (6th–8th July 2019), including a joint 2-hour presentation by me ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet classTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    May 15, 2019 9:44 am
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    On-screen commentary from pianist Joshua Piper during YouTube ballet class

    When I first learned to drive, I read a book about the police driving test, in which you had to do a “commentary drive,” which involves ...
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  • BooksMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 11, 2019 9:57 am
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    Music in “Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear” by Stephen Manes

    I bought Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear when it first came out in 2011: I didn’t particularly want to read it (because I spend enough time ...
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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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