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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • “Ballerinas in the church hall”—Virginia Taylor’s thesis online

  • Judith Espinosa, the fishermen’s wives and the waltz

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

  • Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

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

  • Franz’s solo in Coppélia: yet another interpolation (Bol’shoi version)

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Tag: CDs

Home›Posts Tagged "CDs"
  • 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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  • DanceMusic
    By Jonathan Still
    March 27, 2010 10:30 am
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    SS6

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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2007 6:12 am
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    PIrouettes (or other things): Grande valse from Cinderella Act II

    This is day 25 in my 2007 Advent Calendar. This year, I’m giving the story behind some of the music that I’ve collected for ballet classes. ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 24, 2007 12:30 pm
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    Grand allegro: Valse des bluets et des pavots from The Seasons

    This is day 24 in my 2007 Advent Calendar. This year, I’m giving the story behind some of the music that I’ve collected for ballet classes. ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 23, 2007 8:51 pm
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    Medium allegro: Mandolin dance from Romeo & Juliet

    This is day 23 in my 2007 Advent Calendar. This year, I’m giving the story behind some of the music that I’ve collected for ballet classes. ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 22, 2007 8:03 pm
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    Ronde de jambe en l’air: ‘Dawn’ from Coppélia Act III

    This is day 22 in my 2007 Advent Calendar. This year, I’m giving the story behind some of the music that I’ve collected for ballet classes. ...
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  • Music

    Poldowski’s Bloomsbury Waltz

    Nicely timed for International Women’s Day, I have become completely obsessed by a single work by a composer I had never heard of until the other day: Poldowski (1879-1932), the ...
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    Music

    A belated world book day post: 10 things to love about Zotero

    If you like books, you'll love Zotero. And it's free. Here's a post about how I like using it most.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music

    For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
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    DanceMusic

    The wonderful Library of Dance

    The Library of Dance is an enormous collection of historical dance sources, including hundreds of vintage dance manuals that include tunes.
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