St Hilda’s is host to two German events September 2011
On 9-10 September,
German Fellow Georgina Paul is leading an interdisciplinary symposium on a 2007
work, Niemands Frau, by the poet
Barbara Köhler in which she responds to Homer's Odyssey with a sequence of 21 poems. Barbara Köhler will read from
this vibrant and philosophically engaged work on Friday 9 September at 8.30pm
in the Lady Brodie Room. Entrance is free, but registration essential: please
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On 15-16 September,
DAAD Lektorin Svenja Frank is hosting an international conference entitled Ten Years On - 9/11 in
European literature. Details of the event can be
found here: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/ten-years-on
As part of the conference, acclaimed author Thomas
Lehr will read from his novel September.
Fata Morgana (2010) which interweaves the story of a victim of the World Trade Center attacks and one of a victim of the war in Iraq. The
reading (with English translation) will take place on Thursday, 15 September
at 6 pm in the Lady Brodie Room. German Fellow Georgina Paul will chair the
discussion.
Lunchtime Recital Series - Pierrot Lunaire - Review
This Thursday presented a very
special offering in the popular weekly Lunchtime Recital Series. The Jacqueline du Pré music building welcomed
London-based soprano Helen Semple to perform, together with a group of student
musicians, Arnold Schoenberg's landmark modernist work, Pierrot Lunaire
(1912). The programme began with a harp
solo by Ellen Davis, an enchanting rendition of Fauré's Impromptu
(1904): its crisply articulated carillon-call opening blended into a delicately
hued melody and dazzling runs and arpeggios across the full range of the
instrument. Pierrot was famously
described by Stravinsky as the ‘solar plexus as well as the mind of early
twentieth-century music'. Thursday's
performance demonstrated brilliantly why the piece merits such an accolade, its
richness of colours and tones captured beautifully by the instrumental ensemble
(Rosie Harvey, Calypso Nash, Emily Lay, and Mark Kahn - students at St Hilda's
College, and Naomi Miller of Corpus Christi), with Helen's captivating sprechgesang
engaging the audience through Pierrot's wild oscillations of mood.
The college's
centre for experimental music (M@SH) will be curating a unique new event,
an eight-hour marathon concert of new music and contemporary art. On
Saturday 13th November, the Jacqueline du Pré Music
Building will host composers, performers and improvisers from across Oxford, performing a
range of experimental, contemporary classical and improvised music with new art
work on display throughout. Highlights include performances from experienced
improviser and jazz pianist Pat Thomas, cutting edge electronic music from
Paul Whitty and Exquisite Corpse and performances of music by St. Hilda's
Music postgraduates Chris Ferebee, Chris Garrard and Soosan Lolovar.
The marathon runs from 2pm until 10pm and is free all day. Audience
members are welcome to come and go throughout.
November 2010
St Hilda’s Students Exhibited at The North Wall, Summertown
Two first year St Hilda's students, Kinga Lubowiecka and
Kira Frejie, have had exhibits shown at the Morph
exhibition, which explored the theme of perception, at The North Wall Gallery
in Summertown.
Lubowiecka's contribution was entitled One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back and consisted of four bold and
very colourful canvases painted with oils that appear to celebrate the colour
purple juxtapositioned against a confusion of greens.
Freije's untitled piece was a weathered cargo box
containing nine steel conical forms, which set the worn, aged wood of the box
against the sparkling steel forms which protruded with grid-like regularity
most effectively.
