Ashmolean
Album: ¿Téo? - LunaFriday, 18 August 2023
A little remarked fact of modern music is just how lush the sound of modern R&B and adjacent music is. A decade ago, the relative harshness of trap beats and EDM synths seemed to dominate sonically, or on the more bohemian fringes... Read more... |
Album: Electribe 101 - Electribal SoulWednesday, 16 March 2022
There’s a period of British club music that deserves to be much better appreciated. Before hardcore and jungle, before the Underworlds and Leftfields and other arena acts, came a generation who were much closer to the most song-based US house music... Read more... |
Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours, Ashmolean Museum review - a rich arrayMonday, 14 June 2021
Drawing is the cornerstone of artistic practice, but is often overshadowed by "higher" forms of visual art, such as painting and sculpture. When we walk into an art gallery, we find ourselves gravitating towards the large, impressive oil paintings.... Read more... |
Pagliacci, Opera Ensemble, Longborough review - stripped down but liveMonday, 21 December 2020
List all the problems that the pandemic places in the way of operatic performance, and you might well end up wondering why anyone would bother. Opera Ensemble, however, have bothered, in the shape of an accomplished and moving production of... Read more... |
America's Cool Modernism, Ashmolean Museum review - faces of the new cityThursday, 29 March 2018
Hie thee to Oxford, for it is doubtful that we will see the like of this exhibition again this side of the Atlantic. American art of the 1920s and 1930s was once disregarded in its homeland in favour of Francophile superiority, and once it fell into... Read more... |
Tosca, Wales Millennium CentreTuesday, 03 November 2015
There’s a good deal to be said for semi-staged opera. It concentrates the mind in a particular way; it brings the orchestra more fully into the action; it moves the singers closer to the audience; and above all it reduces – even removes – the power... Read more... |
