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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • On-screen commentary from pianist Joshua Piper during YouTube ballet class

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

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

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

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  • Advent calendarDance LegendsPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 24, 2005 7:22 am
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    Tania Fairbairn

    This is December 24th in my Dance Inpirations advent calendar   As it comes to the end of this advent calendar, I’m left with a very ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceDance LegendsMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 22, 2005 7:06 am
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    Ann Hogben

      This is December 22nd in my Dance Inpirations advent calendar 23 24 It was to Annie that David Wall sent me to pick up some ...
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  • Advent calendarDance LegendsPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 19, 2005 8:19 am
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    Irena Pasarić

    This is December 19th in my Dance Inpirations advent calendar 20 21 22 23 24 If it weren’t for Irena Pasarić, I would probably still hate ...
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  • Advent calendarDance LegendsPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 18, 2005 8:54 am
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    Belinda Quirey (1912 – 1996)

    This is December 18th in my Dance Inpirations advent calendar 19 20 21 22 23 24 It says a lot about Belinda that the story I’d ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceDance LegendsMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 16, 2005 9:29 am
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    Pat (Patricia) Neary

    This is Dec. 16th in my dance inspirations advent calendar. Opened already: December 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceDance LegendsMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 13, 2005 6:38 am
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    Elizabeth (Betty) Anderton

    This is Dec. 13th in my dance inspirations advent calendar. Opened already: December 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th The ...
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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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