Oxford is a city full of firsts – historical, personal, degree class, and musicological. Two of its music venues, separated by about 250 years of history and a walk...
9pm, The Bullingdon, a Tuesday evening. Those three ingredients are pretty much guaranteed either to produce an awful or a brilliant night. Thankfully for...
To call the summer of 2018 memorable would probably be
an understatement: there was the heatwave, the subsequent hours spent in beer
gardens, and, perhaps most...
Clare:
On the 30th October, Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble performed Music with Changing Parts. Due to illness, Glass himself was unable to...
On 4th October, Yorkshire indie band The Sherlocksreleased their second album, Under Your Sky, opening at a brilliant Number 13 on the Official Album Charts. Simone...
In early September, the IOC
published an article celebrating the life of ‘Father of Modern Olympic Games’
Pierre Coubertin. Whilst highlighting his struggles in launching a...
“How would you describe your music to those who haven’t heard it before? -
Being punched in the face then kissed tenderly.”
Another Sky, a London-based...
I doubt you could find many people today who would not
recognize those iconic opening notes of, statistically, the most hated song
ever recorded – even...
At one point America's most successful symphonist, lauded for his ode to forgotten black soldiers, few today have heard of W. G. Still.
According to The Cambridge History of American Music, “No composer plummeted from authentic prominence to an eclipse more total than endured by William Grant Still.”