A year of ballet playing cards #01: Adage (As) – Mozart clarinet concerto
Get the piano score (free download) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Mozart and the malleability of musical meaning This piece has a strange place in my…
A year of ballet playing cards #45: A country wedding (polka) from Má Vlast (6d)
Download the piano score of this polka from Ma Vlast Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards How this polka fell into my hands, and why I love…
A year of ballet playing cards #27: A big polonaise by Glazunov (Ac)
Download the score of this Polonaise by Glazunov as a pdf (free download) Read more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards In an earlier post on polonaises in ballet…
A year of ballet playing cards #43: A csárdás-like Nocturne by Schubert (D4)
This Notturno from Schubert's trio D897 has a lot of csárdás-like qualities that make it very suitable for some adage or battement fondu exercises.
A year of ballet playing cards #41: A juicy csárdás – Ünneplö (“Festive”) by Rózsavölgyi (D2)
Diamonds: a set of pieces in 4: See the Year of Ballet Playing Cards information page D2-Ünneplö (Celebration or “Festive”) by Mark Rózsavölgyi) – click to download the file (pdf)…
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 play happy birthday for…