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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Dance
    By Jonathan Still
    July 4, 2012 7:08 pm
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    RIP Leo Kersley

    Sorry to hear that Leo Kersley, dancer and ballet teacher, and author of my favourite ballet dictionary, died yesterday, aged 92. I would love to have ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    March 11, 2012 8:11 am
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    Of flutter echo, pectoriloquy, music and badminton

    There’s been a strange synchronicity between my reading, work and social lives this week. Last night,  my badminton partner – a sound engineer – dropped the ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    March 2, 2012 7:48 am
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    Desperately seeking (A Pattern Language)

    It’s common to hear people say “These days, you can find it all on the internet” or “You can find everything on Google”.  It’s true in ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    February 27, 2012 10:44 am
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    In praise of (occasional) marginalia

    As you leave the Institute of Education library, there’s a montage of photographs showing the awful things that people have done to books, like water damage ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    February 4, 2012 6:16 pm
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    Happy National Libraries Day – especially to Tooting Library and the IOE

    I’m no Luddite. I was an early-adopter of computers and the internet. I earn about 25% of my salary from playing the piano, and 75% from ...
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  • By Jonathan Still
    June 13, 2011 11:49 pm
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    Argos? What about the library?

    I’d no sooner pressed send on the previous post about the wonder of libraries, than I happened to see a ‘heartwarming’ story in  today’s Evening Standard ...
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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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Shopping

  • All my CDs (except for #2)
  • Biblio.co.uk
  • Hive Books
  • My Amazon Wishlist

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Tune searching

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