Jumping in Red Shoes
Searching for an online script of The Red Shoes I came across this great page which has all kinds of interesting details about the making of the film. One thing…
Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order.
Searching for an online script of The Red Shoes I came across this great page which has all kinds of interesting details about the making of the film. One thing…
There’s a heartening story from the BBC today about how the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College, London has been able to hire a composer-in-residence. The…
Next time you get to a slow bit of a ballet where there’s something a bit wafty and barcarole-ish in 6/8, look out for a psychopomp. A psychopomp, explains the…
Thanks to the musical semiotician Raymond Monelle and his wonderful book The Sense of Music, I am happily aware that there is a concept in music of a horse which…
That’s not the whole surprise, because it’s a fairly well-known fact that the big tune in the apotheosis of The Sleeping Beauty is an old French song, the pre-revolutionary national…
There’s a fairly common belief that until Stravinsky came along, everything was either in 4/4 or 3/4. When I was at school in the 70s, I remember one music lesson…