Andrew Holdsworth and Lockdown Friends: The Same Sun
The Same Sun is a song, written by Andrew Holdsworth and performed by some of the pupils from the school where he has taught music for 25 years, and brought…
Yet another French song in The Nutcracker
I don’t know how I could have left this out of my ‘borrowings in the Nutcracker’ posts. The opening tune of Mère Gigogne is the French nursery rhyme Giroflé girofla.…
A christmas carol ballet class #15: Tendus in the centre – God rest ye merry gentlemen
To download the song, either right-click (Mac: ctrl+click) the player above and select ‘save audio as’, or right-click (Mac: ctrl+click) this link and select ‘save link as‘. This is scraping…
“Oh I do like to be beside the seaside” sheet music online at last
One of the reasons I’ll never have a hit record with Non, Je ne regrette rien is because unfortunately, I do have one big regret. Coming home in the car…
Playing for ballet class tips #8: mix humour with lyricism
If I had one golden rule for playing for class, this would be it: you can get people to listen to anything if you set them up the right way.…
On revolution in The Nutcracker and the limits of Google
French revolutionary musical borrowings in The Nutcracker —wny? As I said in my last post, where I think I’ve discovered a French counter-revolutionary song as a source for one of…