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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Playing for ballet classTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    April 30, 2019 3:54 pm
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    Judith Espinosa, the fishermen’s wives and the waltz

    As allegro was about to begin during a ballet class yesterday, I started to smirk thinking about something I’d read in Derek Parker’s fascinating book, The ...
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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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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet classTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    December 11, 2018 3:48 pm
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    Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

    Nice to see an article about marching music, one of the weird, esoteric topics  that perplex ballet pianists like me: a 2018 conference paper byNiels Hansen, ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 6, 2018 1:41 pm
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    Black Swan, the design of everyday things, and the extended mind

    I’ve been very nervous of trying out the orchestral reduction I made in January 2015  of the Black Swan female variation for real-life principals in companies  in case ...
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  • DanceMusic
    By Jonathan Still
    March 8, 2018 1:20 pm
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    10 fabulous ballet women for International Women’s Day 2018

    One of the reasons I started blogging was because I was frustrated that journalists and historians tended to focus only on the big names: the stars, ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 9, 2017 7:42 pm
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    A year of ballet playing cards #38 (QC): Prague Waltzes: Soft, strong and very long.

    Download piano sheet music for Prague Waltzes by Dvořak (free pdf) Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards When is a waltz not “a waltz”? ...
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Welcome to my site. I mostly write about playing for ballet (I'm a pianist), but the further back you go, the stupider the posts get, so I wouldn't recommend trawling through the archives for treasure.

Timeline

  • May 10, 2022 2:19 pm

    A year of ballet playing cards #6 (S6): A barcarole for port de bras

  • March 10, 2022 5:06 pm

    Me in conversation on a podcast

  • December 11, 2021 12:02 pm

    Music, time and politics in the ballet studio

  • December 8, 2021 4:12 pm

    “On, Wisconsin!” and La Bayadère

  • June 26, 2021 8:07 pm

    Please do not post my free downloads on Scribd: here’s why

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