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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    April 18, 2016 10:37 am
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    Varieties of reading: drawing in and pulling away

    I’ve just finished reading Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head, which I’d happily say is one of the best books I’ve read in the last year.  I wonder ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    April 5, 2016 8:24 am
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    Distraction, “the Attentional Commons” and Birmingham

    Birmingham New Street: the attentional commons colonized by commerce It so happened that while I was reading about a concept of the “attentional commons,” I was ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 2, 2015 9:01 am
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    New ballet playing card published

    I’m publishing my 52 cards on the dates that they should have been published – so you might have missed the latest one, a medley of triple jigs, ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    October 22, 2015 10:11 am
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    Conference on music and movement as process and experience

    If you’re wondering why there’s been a long silence in the 52 cards project, it’s because I’ve been just too busy with other stuff, such as ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    September 3, 2015 6:47 am
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    Normal service coming soon…

    For those looking for the next 52 cards update, it’s on it’s way, and I’ll try to catch up the missing entries for August as well. ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    August 13, 2015 5:47 am
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    Evenings on Žofin

    One of the most complicated music references I’ve ever had to research was for a piece that I found on an album called Little Pearls of Czech Classics. 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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