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Personal Archives - Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. Varieties of reading: drawing in and pulling away. I’ve just finished reading Matthew Crawford’s. The World Beyond Your Head. Which I’d happily say is one of the best books I’ve read in the last year. I wonder when the subtitle changed from. On becoming an individual in an age of distraction. How to flourish in an age of distraction? Still reading “Still writing”. I try (most of the ti...
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Archives - Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. Every year (except 1) since 2005, I’ve been blogging every day during advent on a topic that’s something to do with dance, music, and in one case, IT. Here you can see those calendars as a page of links. 8211; the first one, where I pay tribute to the people who taught me to play for class. 8211; a follow up to 2005: the music that I associate with those people and why. Inventing Tradi...
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iPad Archives - Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. It’s taken me far too long to get the Forscore sheet music app: I can be very slow to adopt stuff. It’s at least a couple of years since my colleague Ho Wen Yang. Told me about Forscore. A sheet music app for the iPad. But then another colleague, Chris Hobson. And me with my USB footpedal for transcribing from audio. Without weighing down my luggage. I could scan bits of stuff that...
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Music Archives - Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. Inventing Tradition: The Chestnut Tree Dance. Dancing your country back. The Chestnut Tree Dance is a bizarre bit of British dance history. It seems worth remembering for a moment in the current atmosphere where some English have been printing “I want my country back” on badges and t-shirts, and Sarkozy wants to reclaim France “for the French. On social dance in interwar Britain. The d...
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Galleries - Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. Links to photos I took. I’m not a photographer, they’re just memories of trips I enjoyed. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Welcome to my new site. Inventing Tradition: The Chestnut Tree Dance. Ballet pianists and sacred cows: a correction. Organizing music for ballet class: problems and solutions. Roast Chicken, Shostakovich, and Gogol Bordello. 100 tips for working with ballet pianists.
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Give your money to charity, not Sainsburys - Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. Give your money to charity, not Sainsburys. Courgette pricing in Sainsburys. So I’ve come up with a better idea: buy your courgettes loose from Sainsburys, and give the money you save to anyone you like, except Mr and Mrs Sainsbury. Confused? Look at the picture above which was taken on Thursday morning at Sainsburys in Tooting. On the left, a 500g. I had to stare at those signs for tw...
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Forscore sheet music app: a great tool for ballet pianists
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. It’s taken me far too long to get the Forscore sheet music app: I can be very slow to adopt stuff. It’s at least a couple of years since my colleague Ho Wen Yang. Told me about Forscore. A sheet music app for the iPad. But then another colleague, Chris Hobson. And me with my USB footpedal for transcribing from audio. Without weighing down my luggage. I could scan bits of stuff that...
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sheetmusic Archives - Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. It’s taken me far too long to get the Forscore sheet music app: I can be very slow to adopt stuff. It’s at least a couple of years since my colleague Ho Wen Yang. Told me about Forscore. A sheet music app for the iPad. But then another colleague, Chris Hobson. And me with my USB footpedal for transcribing from audio. Without weighing down my luggage. I could scan bits of stuff that...
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52 ballet playing cards: Free piano music for ballet class:
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. A polonaise by Ziehrer: one example of the free piano music for ballet class available from this site. Below is a list in date order of each post so far. About a Year of Ballet Playing Cards. January 8, 2015. A year of ballet playing cards: #40 The Csárdás (1D). January 8, 2015. January 15, 2015. January 22, 2015. January 29, 2015. February 5, 2015.
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Forscore Archives - Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist. Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order. A Year of Ballet Playing Cards. It’s taken me far too long to get the Forscore sheet music app: I can be very slow to adopt stuff. It’s at least a couple of years since my colleague Ho Wen Yang. Told me about Forscore. A sheet music app for the iPad. But then another colleague, Chris Hobson. And me with my USB footpedal for transcribing from audio. Without weighing down my luggage. I could scan bits of stuff that...
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