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Little Kitchen’s Christ Church concert is exactly what you need this Oxmas

Little Kitchen, an Oxford-based music collective, will be performing in Christchurch this Thursday. It's the perfect Oxmas treat.

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Music

Little Kitchen’s Christ Church concert is exactly what you need this Oxmas

The power of the playlist

‘Like the edge of a knife’: Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk brings his ‘Continuous Music’ to Oxford

Review: Hill and Harmer’s A Life in Song – the strange world of Lieder

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