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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • On-screen commentary from pianist Joshua Piper during YouTube ballet class

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

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

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Tag: ballet

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  • Plaster drying on a wall.
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    By Jonathan Still
    October 9, 2020 5:50 pm
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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 ...
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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    July 9, 2020 7:47 am
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    Pianos and violins in the ballet class

    When did the piano replace the violin in the ballet class in the Imperial Theatre schools? Galina Bezuglaya has some interesting answers.
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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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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    September 13, 2019 11:51 am
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    Drigo’s “Reveil de Flore” piano score online

    Thanks to Patty Noel who alerted me to the fact that Harvard now have this available online digitally. We’d both previously searched high and low for ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    September 13, 2019 11:48 am
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    Little Humpbacked Horse thesis online

    Great to read Aaron Manela’s masters thesis “Arthur Saint-Léon’s The Little Humpbacked Horse in Context,”  which is available online. Here’s the abstract:  In this study I examine ...
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    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    It’s nearly ten years since I first heard and blogged about Mary [Mollie Bagot Stack] and her Women’s League of Health and Beauty—an organization so successful that they had shows ...
  • 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.
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