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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    May 30, 2020 10:22 pm
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    Stravinsky and the “Summer Moon” foxtrot

    Firebird as a Foxtrot? You're kidding, right? No, it happened—and there was nothing Stravinsky could do about it.
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    December 30, 2013 11:44 pm
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    10 years on – some thoughts about blogging, baking, copyright and music

    I first started blogging in June 2003. I had nothing much to say, but I had just discovered blogging – the word and the concept – ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 25, 2013 5:54 pm
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    A christmas carol ballet class day #25: Révérence – Quem pastores

    Today’s the last in my advent calendar for 2014, in which I’m giving away downloads of Christmas carols for ballet class. To download the song, either ...
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  • Advent calendarMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 6, 2013 10:58 am
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    A christmas carol ballet class #6: Ronds de jambe – Stille nacht (Silent night)

    It’s christmas, have a carol for class. Free to download and use, just don’t sell it on. To download, either right-click (Mac: ctrl+click) the player above ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    November 3, 2010 9:44 am
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    Natalie Wheen on rights to creative work

    This month’s Dancing Times has an article by Natalie Wheen on the issue of rights to creative work, prompted by recent goings on at the ROH. ...
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  • DanceMusic
    By Jonathan Still
    January 21, 2010 3:25 pm
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    Chout-ed and booted

    Another cautionary tale for choreographers: Alexey Miroshnichenko’s new (kind of )work for NYCB The Lady with the Little Dog is onto its second score (this time ...
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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.
  • 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.
  • 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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