Just wanted to let you know that I love your new CD. I used it in class last night and had a ball. To me, music is the most important element of a class and what gives me my inspiration as a teacher. It's so nice to have original music - there is so much out there with endless Minkus and Tchaikovsky, and, lovely as they are, I really enjoy the work that is original. Please keep them coming.
Modern Ballet Studio Melodies Volume 3
Modern Ballet Studio Melodies Volume 3, continuing to provide fun, interesting, inspirational and alternative music choies to compliment your full ballet class.
Photography: Courtesy of Naomi Thornhill
Engineered and Produced by: CW Lynch, c/o GOOLINNMUSIC
goolinnmusic@gmail.com
CD Design: Ian Cottrill
Tracks Arranged and Played by: Christopher Hobson
CD © 2011, Christopher N. Hobson
Track Listing:
BARRE
1. Warm Up – I’ve Never Been In Love Before (Loesser) (128 counts in 4/4)
2. Plié 1 – The Sweetheart Tree (Mancini) (64 counts in 3/4)
3. Plié 2 – I Won’t Send Roses (Herman) (64 counts in 3/4)
4. Slow Battement Tendu – You’ve Got A Friend In Me (Newman) (64 counts in 4/4)
5. Battement Tendu – Rehab (Winehouse) (64 counts in 4/4)
6. Glissé / Dégagé – It Ain’t Necessarily So (Gershwin) (64 counts in 2/4)
7. Rond De Jambe à Terre – Sicilienne (Fauré) (128 counts in 3/4)
8. Battement Frappé 1 – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Rachmaninoff) (64 counts in 2/4)
9. Battement Frappé 2 – 42nd Street (Warren) (32 counts in 2/4)
10. Petit Battement – Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F♯ minor (Brahms) (64 counts in 2/4)
11. Battement Fondu – Tango Sencillo (Hobson) (64 counts in 4/4)
12. Adage – Misty (Garner) (64 counts in 3/4)
13. Développé – Bewitched (Rodgers) (64 counts in 3/4)
14. Grand Battement – Polonaise from “Eugene Onegin” (Tchaikovsky) (64 counts in 6/4)
15. Grand Battement en Clôche – Divertissement; a Le Chocolat from “Nutcracker” (Tchaikovsky (64 counts in 3/4)
16. Stretch 1 – Don’t Look Back In Anger (Gallagher) (128 counts in 3/4)
17. Stretch 2 – The Way We Were (Hamlisch) (64 counts in 4/4)
CENTRE
18. Port De Bras 1 – Can’t Help Falling In Love (Weiss, Peretti, Creatore) (128 counts in 3/4)
19. Port De Bras 2 – Prelude no. 15 in D♭ (Chopin) (64 counts in 4/4)
20. Adage – O Mio Babbino Caro from “Gianni Schicchi” (Puccini) (64 counts in 3/4)
21. Battement Tendu – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Taylor) (128 counts in 4/4)
22. Grand Battement – Dance of the Knights from ‘Romeo and Juliet” (Prokofieff) (64 counts in 4/4)
23. Pirouette 1 – Black Swan Pas De Deux from “Swan Lake” (Tchaikovsky) (128 counts in 3/4)
24. Pirouette 2 – Tango de Argentina (Hobson) (128 counts in 4/4)
25. Jumps 1 – Look What Happened To Mabel (Herman) (64 counts in 2/4)
26. Jumps 2 – Avenue Q Medley (Lopez, Marx) (128 counts in 2/4)
27. Jumps 3 – Satin Doll (Ellington, Strayhorn, Mercer) (128 counts in 2/4)
28. Jumps 4 – Mambo No. 5 (Prado) (64 counts in 2/4)
29. Petit Allegro 1 – It’s A Fine Life (Bart) (128 counts in 2/4)
30. Petit Allegro 2 – The Entertainer (Joplin) (256 counts in 2/4)
31. Medium Allegro 1 – Grand Valse Brillante (Chopin) (128 counts in 3/4)
32. Medium Allegro 2 – The Last Waltz (Reed, Mason) (128 counts in 3/4)
33. Grand Allegro 1 – Male Variation from “La Bayadere” (Minkus) (192 counts in 3/4)
34. Grand Allegro 2 – Waltz Of My Heart (Novello) (128 counts in 3/4)
35. Coda – Coda from ‘Don Quixote” (Minkus) (128 counts in 2/4)
36. Cool Down & Révérence – Emotions (Hobson) (64 + 8 counts in 3/4)