Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #5: Playing for the White Swan variation
I’ve already written an entire recent post about one problem with accompanying this variation (The perils of musicality when you’re accompanying a ballet solo) but that’s not the end of…
A christmas ballet class #01: Warm-up – Oh come all ye faithful
As it’s christmas, I’m handing out carols for class, one a day, until Christmas day. Free for you to use in class, but don’t go selling them on street corners…
A little sensory history of ballet classes
A piece I wrote to conjure up the musical world of the Royal Academy of Dance when I was new to ballet, back in 1986. Call it a sensory history…