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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Cartoon by Marlene Spiers of a ballet pianist
    MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 7, 2020 4:12 pm
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    Everyday life as a ballet pianist: a cartoon by Marlene Spiers

    What not to say to ballet pianists: a cartoon from 1990 captures the moment perfectly!
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    June 16, 2019 10:35 am
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    Rudy Apffel’s Czerny For Ballet Class blog

    Absolutely thrilled to discover Rudy Apfells’ Czerny for Ballet Class blog  — lovely recordings of huge numbers of Czerny exercises, together with reimaginings/reworkings of them (see ...
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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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  • MusicPlaying for ballet classTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    January 20, 2019 6:42 pm
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    Ballet pianists on film

    Film clips of ballet pianists playing for class are so rare. There are films (such as the World Ballet Day online classes) where pianists play for ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 18, 2014 9:46 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #18: Page turns

    I’m not a particularly tidy or obsessive person, except when it comes to scores that I have to play from. If it’s for a performance, I’ll want ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 17, 2014 7:07 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #17: Why’s she looking at me like that?

    civil inattention
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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.
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    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.
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    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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