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STAGE – SCREEN – MUSIC
Image Description: poster used to advertise the production, a tree made out of abstract images of people on a black background Exploring grief through music, Oxford Contemporary Opera Society has commissioned 5 pieces that move through the stages of grief. Throughout the performances, dissonant chords and large ranges in the melody present challenges for the […]
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Image Description: A warmly lit room with a person sat concentrating and wearing earphones Early 2020 saw the beginning of the UK’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and as a result, millions of people being ordered to stay at home. With seemingly endless restrictions on socializing, shared spaces, and attending events, it wasn’t long […]
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Image Description: Kathryn Bigelow 2019 saw a historic number of women working in the film industry. It was also another year in which women were absent from the nominees for Best Director at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars, with films such as Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Lulu Wang’s The Farewell omitted. The upcoming 78thAnnual […]
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Image description: A violin resting against a sunlit cupboard For the past year, like many others, my experience of ‘live’ classical music has been confined to a 11” x 13” laptop screen. Initially, I found the virtual version a pale substitute for the very human experience of hearing an orchestra live, feeling the atmosphere created […]
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Image Description: A crowd in a concert venue, a silhouette of a hand is in focus on a background of yellow lighting. In better times, concerts were easily my favourite night out. There’s something about the ebb and flow of a crowd that makes music that much more thrilling. I have very vivid memories of […]
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Applications to join the Editorial team of the Oxford Student are now open! All applications consist of a written application and following this you may be called to an interview with the new Editors in Chief for Trinity term 2021, Isaac and Natasha. News Team applicants may also be required to send in an example […]
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Image description: A black and white image of a crowded city One of Amazon’s better ideas in recent years has been the ‘Kindle Deal of the Day’, where you can very cheaply acquire an ebook picked out from the otherwise overpopulated kindle bookstore. Some time ago, a book by Ferenc Karinthy, a Hungarian author, was […]
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Image description: An illustration of Abelard and Heloise kissing while Heloise writes a letter by artist Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale In the past, Abelard and Heloise were names ranked alongside Romeo and Juliet, or Dante and Beatrice, as an everlasting tale of passionate romance and forbidden love. I can imagine most students reading this article, however, are […]
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Image description: Nirvana’s album cover for Nevermind, a baby in a swimming pool reaching for a dollar bill on a hook In 1991, one of the best selling albums of all time was released into the world. Through Nevermind, the follow up to their debut album Bleach, Nirvana both commercialised their sound and brought grunge […]
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Image Description: a close-up photo of a condenser microphone against a purple background Picture this: it’s 2008. Britney Spears has just shaved her head! It’s in all the magazines and game show Family Fortunes US runs a round on it. “What has Britney Spears lost this year?” “Her husband! Her hair! Her sanity!” cry the […]
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Image Description: Lorde on stage wearing a flower crown on a dark blue background Usually, around Valentine’s Day we start to see a lot of those “50 Best Breakup Songs of All Time” and “Perfect Songs to Cry To” lists pop up, and don’t get me wrong, I love those. But this year is different. […]
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Image description: Martin Scorsese pictured at a film festival In late 2019, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese remarked, in an interview with Empire magazine, that the MCU films “weren’t cinema”. Unsurprisingly, this kicked up an enormous argument as to whether his position was snobbery, valid criticism, or the outdated position of a past-it director who couldn’t […]
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Image description: “Direwolves” – an acrylic painting by Marietta Kosma Game of Thrones premiered in 2011, ten years ago, yet it remains one of the most popular shows in the cultural imaginary. Even though it portrays fantasy worlds of the medieval era, it conveys realism through the employment of violence, graphic sex and its unconventional ending. […]
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Image description: Ralph Fiennes playing archaeologist Basil Brown in The Dig The excavation of Sutton Hoo may seem like an odd choice for Netflix’s new movie; archaeology doesn’t really fill people with excitement unless it is Indiana Jones. However, The Dig (2021), directed by Simon Stone, manages to make an exceedingly compelling dramatisation of real-life […]
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Image Description: the characters Lola and Narcisse shooting a bow and arrow in the show Reign. While the end of Bridgerton may have left you dealing with withdrawal from period dresses, feminist overtones and rampant corset sex, fear not, because Laurie McCarthy and Stephanie Sengupta’s 2013-2017 series Reign can fill this gap in your soul. […]
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Image Description: still from WandaVision of the main characters Wanda and Vision in a living room Saturdays are starting to feel anticlimactic. As a WandaVision fan, you wait a whole week for an episode. On Friday you literally FLY out of bed to watch the 30-minute episode waiting for you in digital paradise. As you […]
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Image description: Michelle Pfeiffer portraying Countess Ellen Olenska in the film Age of Innocence. Martin Scorsese is, without doubt, my favourite film director. Watching GoodFellas in my early teenage years, I was captivated, while somewhat conflicted, by the anti-hero Henry Hill’s life of excess. The film begins with Henry as a teenager himself. Soon, he […]
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Image Description: poster for the podcast, reading “Relatively”, with siblings standing beside each other With two younger sisters, both with strong personalities, my life has been defined by sibling relationships. But it is not something I have ever given much thought. We spend hours agonising over our romantic relationships, and we are often very conscious […]
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Image Description: A painting of a tree against a blue background. Happy Hour News is Ox-Stu’s weekly good news story, highlighting positive stories from the Oxford Community. Email us at [email protected] if you have a story you think we might want to feature next week. Natalia Luis-Bassa (Professor, Royal College of Music) will join the […]
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