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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: IT tips

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  • By Jonathan Still
    December 8, 2015 8:04 am
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    Importing documents and structure from Scrivener to MaxQDA

    Here’s my triumph of the day: getting Scrivener to export about 400 separate documents into a single file that you can then import into MaxQDA with a code ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 16, 2015 7:28 am
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    IT tip: how to stop Guardian links from displaying 404 in Facebook posts

    I can’t remember when this started, but for a while now, if you paste a link into Facebook from the Guardian, you get the 404 page above ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    September 16, 2012 7:51 am
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    Missing wordpress posts? Can’t update old pages? Try this

    Yesterday I had the first and only WordPress crisis ever since I installed it several years ago. When I tried to update an old  post, the ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    July 13, 2012 8:43 am
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    Peachnote for all your classical ‘name-that-tune’ problems

    Here was today’s musical problem – what’s the tune that Deanna Durbin singing in this film? I need the score immediately for a recording. I know ...
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  • By Jonathan Still
    March 20, 2012 7:30 am
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    How to sync voice memos from your iPhone

    The Voice Memos app on the iPhone is one of its most useful features, but for maybe a year, it’s proved impossible to get voice recordings ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    February 7, 2012 9:59 am
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    IT tips: how to stop Chrome opening your pdfs

    I love Chrome, but I hate the way it takes over your pdfs and opens them in the browser. I also hate the way this isn’t ...
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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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