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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    November 24, 2020 6:41 pm
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    Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

    Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    November 6, 2018 1:41 pm
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    Black Swan, the design of everyday things, and the extended mind

    I’ve been very nervous of trying out the orchestral reduction I made in January 2015  of the Black Swan female variation for real-life principals in companies  in case ...
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  • Free sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet classTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    March 27, 2017 11:59 am
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    Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

    I had to play this yesterday at a competition, and surprisingly, it’s the first time I’ve had to do it in public. It’s vile to play. Nowadays, ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 30, 2016 10:36 pm
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    A year of ballet playing cards #50: A chameleon-like march by Granados (DJ)

    Download the score  of the Military March by Granados  (pdf, free)  Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards The march that isn’t a march: one of the ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 14, 2015 5:20 am
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    A year of ballet playing cards #16 : Esmeralda male variation music (3h)

    Download the score of the Esmeralda male variation music (free pdf)  Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards You can never have enough grand allegro, ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    May 7, 2015 9:22 am
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    A year of playing cards #33: A deathly slow waltz (7c)

    Download free piano pdf score Read  more about my Year of Ballet Playing Cards Thanks to Grant Kennedy in Australia for this as an idea for adage/ronds de ...
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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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