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How an Oxford undergraduate made a name in choral music

When he arrived at Oxford, he expected his future to lie primarily in orchestral music. Instead, it was choral music that transformed his direction.

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‘Scenes With Girls’ and complicated female friendships

'Scenes with Girls' deserves to be seen as one of Labyrinth Productions’ (Rosie Morgan-Males and Emily Cullinan) most impressive accolades.

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‘The Moro Affair’: Astonishingly original, but not quite a story

The acting in 'The Moro Affair' was superb across the board, with Harriet Wilson’s Pope as a standout, and Rosie Sutton’s direction was flawless.

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‘Music can be everything’: Aurora Orchestra’s Jane Mitchell on the narratives around classical music

The Aurora Orchestra, who are playing at Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre on the 19th June, are best known for performing their orchestral repertoire from memory.

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Britain and Ireland in colour

Sophie Balfour-Lynn takes us away from this week's riots with some captivatingly beautiful photographs of British and Irish landscapes and wildlife

An American parable

Jacob Williamson takes a look back at The Social Network and thinks about why its issues and ideas will continue to matter

Review: Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne

Francesca Wade is impressed by the Submarine author's new offering, a hilarious apocalyptic novel set on a Welsh commune

Washington DC, the street

Lauri Saksa hunts for pictures in the American capital

Cherwell Music presents Mixer: July 2011

Cherwell Music kicks off its series of online mixtapes with a round-up of recent releases and summer jams, featuring tracks by Wavves, BjÃ¶rk, Washed Out, Kendrick Lamar, and more

Review: Snow Patrol – Called Out In The Dark

Susan Yu explores the Bangor rock band's first comeback single

Review: The Horrors – Skying

The Horrors' third studio album is an immersive and coherent experience, writes James Manning

Review: Two Gallants at Hoxton Bar

The long awaited return to the road of this blues-folk duo leaves Cherwell wanting more

Review: Autre Ne Veut – Body EP

Cherwell finds little substance behind the eccentricity on the avant-R&B artist's latest EP

Review: Theophilus London – Timez Are Weird These Days

Cherwell is unconvinced by the Brooklyn rapper's debut album, following his breakthrough EP earlier this year

A farewell to Lucian Freud

Cherwell looks back on the life and art of Lucian Freud, one of the greatest portrait painters of our time

The best band you’ve never heard of

Steffan Blayney explores the odd delights of The Odolites, 25 years on

Shorted circuits

With the release of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Huw Fullerton muses on how the franchise lost its way

Sexual stuff and nonsense

Matthew Isard finds himself disappointed by Kaboom, Gregg Araki's story of sexual awakening with a sci-fi twist

What’s it like to be a bee?

Brian Earp takes a look at our moral obligations towards insects in the light of new research which concludes honey bees feel emotion

Banter and Posthumousness

Cherwell asks Lars Iyer some questions about his debut novel, Spurious, and the relationship between fiction and philosophy

Review: Within and Without

Cherwell finds moments of assertion on Ernest Greene's debut album

Review: The Tree of Life

Not exactly a review: Jacob Williamson struggles to come to grips with The Tree of Life

Teacher of Dance

Cherwell is illuminated by Haegue Yang's first major UK show at Modern Art Oxford, and its exploration of ideas through light, shape, and movement

Two decades after the collapse of the wall dividing east from west, and Berlin has started to shape a new identity for itself. Amongst the stark remnants of a tumultuous and violent past, humanity flourishes and old wounds begin to heal. Becky Nye travels to Berlin to capture a sense of this rejuvenated city

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Culture

How an Oxford undergraduate made a name in choral music

‘Scenes With Girls’ and complicated female friendships

‘The Moro Affair’: Astonishingly original, but not quite a story

‘Music can be everything’: Aurora Orchestra’s Jane Mitchell on the narratives around classical music

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