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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 30, 2018 5:49 pm
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    More on the Nutcracker party galop

    Thanks to Kathie Brobeck who commented on one of my favourite posts, about the origins of the children’s galop in “Tchaikovsky’s” Nutcracker, saying that Steamboat is a Scottish ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 17, 2014 10:22 am
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    And ANOTHER French song in the Nutcracker

    Remember yesterday I said that the middle (6/8) section of Mère Gigogne in The Nutcracker just ‘had to be’ a French song? Well, I’ve found it, thanks ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 16, 2014 10:28 am
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    Yet another French song in The Nutcracker

    I don’t know how I could have left this out of my ‘borrowings in the Nutcracker’ posts. The opening tune of Mère Gigogne is the French nursery rhyme Giroflé ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    September 8, 2013 10:01 am
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    Yet another source for the Nutcracker party scene tune

    It’s become something of a hobby, finding sources for the tunes in Tchaikovsky’s score for The Nutcracker. I thought I’d had all the surprises there were to be ...
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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 18, 2012 4:22 pm
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    More on borrowings in the Nutcracker

    I think most people know that there are quite a few musical borrowings in the Nutcracker, and that Tchaikovsky got the theme for the Arabian from ...
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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 12, 2012 10:55 am
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    On revolution in The Nutcracker and the limits of Google

    French revolutionary musical borrowings in The Nutcracker —wny? As I said in my last post, where I think I’ve discovered a French counter-revolutionary song as a source ...
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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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