My 100th Post! (Plus a Table of Contents)

Today I bid farewell to the double digits, as 99 posts shifts over to 100. An exciting moment for me – I think I need to celebrate the occasion with cake and champagne. Care to join me? But before that, care to join me in a look back on the last 100 posts? In fact, what this site needs, I now realize, is a Table of Contents. Sure, you can click on Archives, scrolling through them a month at a time, or a category at a time. But that’s a lot of potential scroll fatigue. So how about this – here’s a list of posts/blogs/essays by category. Some are hyperlinked, some aren’t. I’ve yet to discover whether the stress of 100 linked posts will make my blog implode. If you want to read one that’s not hyperlinked, select and cut/paste it into “search.”

Okay, here we go. And BTW, if you see an asterisk in front of a title, it means it’s a post that has drawn a lot of readers. “What do ballet dancers eat?” in particular, draws readers in the triple digits on a daily basis. Cool! Love it when that happens!

First, ballet…

• Artist Spotlight: SFB’s Maria Kochetkova – Apr 2014
• San Francisco Ballet’s Triple Treat: Maelstrom, Caprice, Rite of Spring – Apr 2014
• 9 Reasons to Watch Diablo Ballet – Mar 2014
• Popcorn and pas de deux: ballet in the cinema – Mar 2014
• *Ohad Naharin’s “Minus 16″ – Feb 2014
• Shades, Ghosts and Birds: San Francisco Ballet’s Program 3 – Feb 2014
• *What do ballet dancers eat? – Jan
• 5 other things I learned from ballet – Jan
• Nutcracker: Tis the Season – Dec
• San Francisco Ballet time again! – Dec
• Ballet San Jose’s gala of all galas – Nov
• Smuin: the other San Francisco ballet – Oct
• Ballerina Dreams – Oct
• Classical Girl meets The Modern Classic – Oct
• *Artist’s Spotlight: Yuan Yuan Tan – Sep
• 5 ballet clips to brighten your day – Sep
• Grown-Ups at the Barre – Aug
• *Thank you, Dance Advantage! – Jul
• Cojocaru has landed: the English National Ballet – Jul
• *Ballet class in Paris: I dare you – Jul
• Ten things my cats have taught me about ballet – Jun
• A Royal Exodus? – Jun
• *Popping into Palais Garnier – Jun
• How I attended the San Francisco Ballet for $14 – May
• Ballet live: biggest onstage gaffe – May
• *Ulyana Lopatkina and Her Swans – May
• *How I almost didn’t go back – Apr 2013
• Maria Tallchief: a Tribute – Apr 2013
• Artist Spotlight: Alina Cojocaru – Apr 2013
• Bombs or Ballet? – Apr 2013
• *Thank You, Adult Ballerina Project! – Apr 2013
• Dancer warrior hero: Adrianne Haslet-Davis – Apr 2013
• San Francisco Ballet’s Program 6 – Apr 2013
• The Glorious Corps of the San Francisco Ballet – Mar 2013
• Thumbs Up For SF Ballet’s Program 4 – Mar 2013
• No, it’s not too late for her! – Mar 2013
• Adult Ballet Classes – Feb 2013
• *Beginner’s Remorse – Feb 2013

Then, classical music…

• Schmidt’s Lament – Mar 2014
• Chopin for Everyone – Jan
• Eating Greens at the San Francisco Symphony – Nov
• Haunted by St. Saens’ Organ Symphony – Sep
• *Beau Soir – Aug
• *John Cage’s “As Slow As Possible” – Jul
• A Perfect Moment via “O Mio Babbino” – Jun
• Dvořák Saves the Plane – Jun
• Schumann’s Ghost – Apr 2013
• Bruch’s Ineffable Magic – Mar 2013
• Creating The First – Feb 2013
• Saint-Saens at 35,000 feet – Feb 2013
• *The Curse of the Ninth – Feb 2013
• A Ghostly Melody – Feb 2013
• When the Masters Meet – Feb 2013

Next, the violin…

• High Drama: Frank Almond and the Lipinski Strad – Feb 2014
• How the violin un-stole Christmas – Dec
• *Play the violin in 5 easy steps! – Oct
• *Beau Soir – Aug
• Stolen Stradivarius Recovered – Jul
• Dvořák Saves the Plane – Jun
• Classical Girl’s Violin Debut at DWF Airport – Jun
• *Augustin Hadelich: A Fiery Artistry – May
• Strings: an exquisite act of incredible stupidity – Apr 2013
• The Chromatic Tuner – I Can Stop Anytime – Mar 2013
• Serenade for Violin and Song Sparrow – Mar 2013
• First Violin Encounter – Feb 2013
• Beginner’s Remorse – Feb 2013

And now, life…

• Family: Ein Prosit – Apr 2014
• The Classical Girl turns one year old! – Mar 2014
• Be my Lupercalia Valentine – Feb 2014
• Embracing the Dark – Jan
• Christmas Bells – Dec
• Taking (making?) stock on New Year’s Eve – Dec
• Thanksgiving and the art of compromise – Nov
• Ballerina Dreams – Oct
• Classical Girl meets The Modern Classic – Oct
• Big Red Grapes Rolling – Sep
• 10,000 Views for my Birthday – Sep
• Family – Aug
• *Ten things my cats have taught me about ballet – Jun
• A Perfect Moment via “O Mio Babbino” – Jun
• Classical Girl’s Violin Debut at DWF Airport – Jun
• Silent Retreat – May
• *Honoring the Motherless Daughter Today – May
• The Liebster Award: Warning… Candor Ahead – May
• Tips for a successful and happy lifelong marriage – May
• To the Parents of April Jones – May
• Losing Roger Ebert – May
• Maria Tallchief: a Tribute – Apr 2013
• Dancer warrior hero: Adrianne Haslet-Davis – Apr 2013
• When stuffed, talking hamsters meet the Russian police – Mar 2013
• Motherhood Lessons – Mar 2013

Culminating with Classical Girl’s fiction in “The Writing Life”

• More Black Ivory Soul – Nov
• The Story Needs Music – Sep
• Haunted by St. Saens’ Organ Symphony – Sep
• Classical Girl’s Black Ivory Soul – Aug
• Writers and Their Ideas – Jul
• The Inheritance – a short story excerpt – Mar 2013
• Schumann’s Ghost – Apr 2013

Thank you, thank you, readers and family and friends and all who’ve stopped by The Classical Girl to read one of my yarns. I soooo very much appreciate all of you!

And now, something about a promised glass of champagne, right?