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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: music for ballet class

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  • BooksMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 11, 2019 9:57 am
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    Music in “Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear” by Stephen Manes

    I bought Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear when it first came out in 2011: I didn’t particularly want to read it (because I spend enough time ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 17, 2018 8:03 pm
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    Christmas carols for ballet class: free downloads

    Christmas carols for ballet class: get ready for advent It’s that time of year again: a few years ago, as an “advent calendar” I uploaded a ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 15, 2015 5:48 pm
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    A year of ballet playing cards #41: A juicy csárdás – Ünneplö (“Festive”) by Rózsavölgyi (D2)

    Diamonds: a set of pieces in 4: See the Year of Ballet Playing Cards information page D2-Ünneplö (Celebration or “Festive”) by Mark Rózsavölgyi) – click to download the file ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 8, 2015 5:20 am
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    A year of ballet playing cards: #40 The Csárdás (1D)

      Diamonds: a set of pieces in 4: See the Year of Ballet Playing Cards information page 1D (#40): Liszt Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D flat (opening) ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 28, 2014 5:30 am
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    Black Friday – Christmas Carols for Class, Free Download (all 26 tracks)

    For last year’s Advent Calendar, I did 26 sketches of Christmas Carols for class. I’d love to make the album properly one day, but in 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.
  • 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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