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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.
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Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
Music Musicology Playing 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.
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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 ...
Books Playing for ballet class

Galina Bezuglaya’s second book

Perhaps you have to be as old as I am to be quite as excited about a book arriving from Russia, but it’s doubly exciting since I ordered it on ...