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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: piano

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  • DanceMusic
    By Jonathan Still
    December 11, 2020 1:53 pm
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    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.
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  • DanceMusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    July 9, 2020 7:47 am
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    Pianos and violins in the ballet class

    When did the piano replace the violin in the ballet class in the Imperial Theatre schools? Galina Bezuglaya has some interesting answers.
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 16, 2020 8:47 pm
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    The Ballet Piano Podcast

    I remember saying to someone a few years ago that the distance between you thinking of an idea for a project, and someone else coming up ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    June 16, 2019 10:35 am
    262
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    Rudy Apffel’s Czerny For Ballet Class blog

    Absolutely thrilled to discover Rudy Apfells’ Czerny for Ballet Class blog  — lovely recordings of huge numbers of Czerny exercises, together with reimaginings/reworkings of them (see ...
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  • Playing for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    April 30, 2019 3:54 pm
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    Judith Espinosa, the fishermen’s wives and the waltz

    As allegro was about to begin during a ballet class yesterday, I started to smirk thinking about something I’d read in Derek Parker’s fascinating book, The ...
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  • MusicPlaying for ballet classTop pages
    By Jonathan Still
    January 20, 2019 6:42 pm
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    Ballet pianists on film

    Film clips of ballet pianists playing for class are so rare. There are films (such as the World Ballet Day online classes) where pianists play for ...
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  • Dance LegendsMusic

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    It’s nearly ten years since I first heard and blogged about Mary [Mollie Bagot Stack] and her Women’s League of Health and Beauty—an organization so successful that they had shows ...
  • 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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