Artist of the Week: Kilian Meissner
Tell me about yourself: Hi, I’m Kilian. I’m a third-year classicist at New, and I have a conducting problem. Aside from music, I also play the viola. How did you first get into conducting? The story I like to tell is that I was very lucky to be playing in the National Children̵
A Cannes Diary
Attending the Cannes Film Festival has long been a dream of mine, and became a particular goal of my year abroad, so much so that I craftily positioned myself in the South of France for the second half of my year, just twenty minutes from Cannes. So, when I was finally walking along La Croisette [&h
Review: Metamorphosis
“You should be hearing this in your left ear.” “You should be hearing this in your right ear.” I was. The voice of Sonya Luchanskaya delivered these words through the respective drivers on my personal headphone set, which were waiting at my seat as I walked into the Michael P
Emerging Blinking: ‘Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality’ at the Ashmolean
The Ashmolean’s Sainsbury Gallery is rarely so atmospheric. Dark walls loom over codices and drypoint, partitions make the rooms themselves maze-like, and the space is given a feeling of hushed silence – normally. On my third visit, it’s Summer VIIIs, and viewers huddle in the cool away from t