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Yvonne Frindle
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Harmonious wordsmith. Writer, editor, designer and speaker, specialising in classical music and dance. 🇦🇺👩🏻‍🎨🩰🇺🇦
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At a 70th-birthday tribute concert for Isaac Stern in 1990, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich performed Saint-Säens’ Swan wearing a tutu, swan headdress, ballet shoes and lipstick. Pictured here with Stern and Gregory Peck
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Black and white photo. Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, dressed in white tights, huge ballet slippers, a white practice tutu, white sleeveless top, and feathered ballet headdress, smiling broadly with one arm around violinist Isaac Stern, who is dressed in a suit and also smiling broadly. To their right is a smiling Gregory Peck, also in a suit. They are standing in front of music stands and chairs in an outdoor performance space in a San Francisco park, and there is a dark hanging banner in the background with what looks like an Al Hirschfield caricature of Stern playing violin reproduced in white. The year is 1990.
February 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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🧵#BalletMusic I had reason to want to check Pugni's marked tempo for the Carlotta Grisi variation in Pas de Quatre this evening, so I pottered over to IMSLP to check the original piano score edition and I found the most curious thing… [1/5]
Piano sheet music for the Carlotta Grisi variation in Pas de Quatre. The tempo marking is "Andante", the written time-signature is three-four (three quarter notes per measure), but the notation shows music in two-four (two quarter notes per measure). Essentially, it's a typo.
February 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,735,893!
September 17, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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And today Google is celebrating the flat white. Or perhaps it's just Google in Australia…?
Google doodle for 11 March 2024 showing a cup of coffee with a smiley face and the letters for "GOOGLE" formed from coffee cups and coffee-making paraphenalia.
March 11, 2024 at 3:31 AM