Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Writings
  • A Year of Ballet Playing Cards
  • About me
    • Transcription services
  • Contact

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

  • Home
  • Writings
  • A Year of Ballet Playing Cards
  • About me
    • Transcription services
  • Contact

  • Tamara Karsavina on music

  • On-screen commentary from pianist Joshua Piper during YouTube ballet class

  • Tchaikovsky’s hairpins

  • Ballet pianists on film

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

  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Tag: playing for ballet class

Home›Posts Tagged "playing for ballet class"
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 17, 2021 4:01 pm
    88
    8

    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.
    Read More
  • MusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    February 16, 2020 8:47 pm
    371
    4

    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 ...
    Read More
  • DanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 20, 2014 6:34 am
    1186
    0

    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.
    Read More
  •
    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.
  •
    DanceMusic

    The wonderful Library of Dance

    The Library of Dance is an enormous collection of historical dance sources, including hundreds of vintage dance manuals that include tunes.
  •
    Dance LegendsMusic

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    The Women's League of Health and Beauty Exercises—music from the early 1930s, and a beautiful documentary, all online.
  • 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.
© Copyright Jonathan Still 2020
Jonathan Still, ballet pianist