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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • 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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  • 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.
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    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.
  • DanceDance LegendsPeople

    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 pedagogue—and plasterer, restorer of ...
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