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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • “Ballerinas in the church hall”—Virginia Taylor’s thesis online

  • Judith Espinosa, the fishermen’s wives and the waltz

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

  • Do marches really have to have dotted rhythms?

  • “They would have…” — Coppélia, Scotch snaps and class (the social kind)

  • Franz’s solo in Coppélia: yet another interpolation (Bol’shoi version)

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 17, 2021 4:01 pm
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    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
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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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  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 20, 2014 6:34 am
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    Confessions of an anxious ballet pianist day #20: Too much attention

    As a pianist in a ballet class, being ignored feels awkward—but too much attention is even worse.
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    New podcast series on folk tunes and Englishness

    As I’m slightly obsessed with fiddlers’ tune books, ever since I found that this is where I should have been looking all the time for all the gaps in my ...
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    Poldowski’s Bloomsbury Waltz

    Nicely timed for International Women’s Day, I have become completely obsessed by a single work by a composer I had never heard of until the other day: Poldowski (1879-1932), the ...
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    A belated world book day post: 10 things to love about Zotero

    If you like books, you'll love Zotero. And it's free. Here's a post about how I like using it most.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music

    For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
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