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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • By Jonathan Still
    February 1, 2009 8:45 pm
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    Mihálhyi Csikszentmihályi and Flow

    20 minutes of inspiration from the author of Flow…. I enter my flow state being able to spell Csikszentmihályi properly, by the way.
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  • Playing for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    January 27, 2009 11:59 pm
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    Every good boy deserves favour

    To the National Theatre to see Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by Tom Stoppard & André Previn on the recommendation of Chris who happily went to ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    December 26, 2008 11:59 pm
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    A Little Night Music

    To the Menier Chocolate Factory for dinner & Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with Chris & parents and John from Atlanta.  I can’t remember ever ...
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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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