Beautiful new edition of a La Bayadère répétiteur free online
For ballet music nerds like me, this is quite the event in our tiny corner of the musical universe. Ryan Hirst has uploaded to IMSLP a beautifully typeset edition of…
Black Swan, the design of everyday things, and the extended mind
I’ve been very nervous of trying out the orchestral reduction I made in January 2015 of the Black Swan female variation for real-life principals in companies in case I became…
Music for ballet class, circa 1921
Kosloff's "Russian Ballet Technique, as Taught", published in 1921, contains a one-page guide to matching appropriate music to exercises in a typical ballet class of the day. For teachers and…