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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • Tamara Karsavina on music

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  • Diamond fairy variation: new piano arrangement

Tag: postgrad study

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  • Books
    By Jonathan Still
    August 23, 2017 3:15 pm
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    Post-grad study for mature students : 15 tips

    A while back, a friend and colleague who is about to start a PhD asked me if I had any advice. I said, don’t ask me, ...
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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 ...
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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.
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    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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