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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • By Jonathan Still
    January 11, 2012 9:31 am
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    Give yourself a break from multi-tasking

    Just try it. Give this podcast from Headspace about the healthy use of technology 15 minutes of your time. Pause to reflect on the way you ...
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  • By Jonathan Still
    September 6, 2011 9:50 am
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    A darker shade of chocolate: Green and Black’s and Ben Goldacre

    If like me you’re a bit overwhelmed by the ubiquity of Green & Black’s chocolate, you might be interested to see this broadside from its founder ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    July 7, 2011 7:15 am
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    All hail the Anti-PowerPoint Party

    Friends & readers of this blog will know how much I detest PowerPoint, or rather the mis-use of it. I can’t say that I thought it ...
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  • By Jonathan Still
    June 17, 2011 1:54 pm
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    This time, Slovenia: A geography lesson for Telegraph readers

    ‘Working class pupils ‘perform better in Slovenia than in UK‘ is the headline of  an astonishingly crass article in today’s Telegraph.  I can’t be bothered to ...
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  • By Jonathan Still
    June 16, 2011 10:38 am
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    Another group hit by library closures: the U3A

      Education: The Age of Uncertainty is an impassioned but factual article in today’s Independent about the effect that library closures are having on the elderly, ...
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  • By Jonathan Still
    June 13, 2011 11:49 pm
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    Argos? What about the library?

    I’d no sooner pressed send on the previous post about the wonder of libraries, than I happened to see a ‘heartwarming’ story in  today’s Evening Standard ...
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  • Dance LegendsMusic

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    The Women's League of Health and Beauty Exercises—music from the early 1930s, and a beautiful documentary, all online.
  • 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.
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