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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: Music

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  • BooksPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    October 7, 2020 4:48 pm
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    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 ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 6, 2020 4:57 pm
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    A 19th century quadrille generator

    I remember inwardly eye-rolling when I heard a teacher many years ago claim excitedly that her pianist “never played the same thing twice.” Call me cynical, ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 26, 2020 12:27 pm
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    Can’t tell a waltz from a tango? I have just the song for you

    “I can’t tell a waltz from a tango” would be a great title for a ballet-related music course, though in all honesty, “I can’t tell a ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    August 16, 2019 4:52 pm
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    “. . . And she done the fandango all over the place”

    I’ve just found another beautiful piece of dance research. Beauty might be an odd adjective to use, but there is something deeply attractive about the careful ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    June 20, 2019 10:34 am
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    Sources for the “Esmeralda” pas de deux

    One of the oddities about the ballet repertoire is that the more famous and frequently performed the piece, the more tricky its musical history, like the  ...
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  • Playing for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    June 14, 2019 11:13 pm
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    Lightly up, up, up: John O’Brien, legendary dance teacher

    When John O’Brien died on 11th May this year, I suggested to the RAD that they should do something to remember him, since he taught for ...
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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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