Alexandra Wilson

1 month ago | thecritic.co.uk | Alexandra Wilson

Face-to-face lectures can be far more illuminating than a mere video As the university year draws once more to its close, let us pause to pity the poor unloved lecture. Nobody, we are told, really likes them. In a recent article in the Cambridge student newspaper Varsity, an undergraduate groused about having to make the effort to attend a form of teaching she considered a low priority.

1 month ago | lohud.com | Alexandra Wilson

Dreaming of spending your summer at Playland? Those looking for a fun way to spend summer, and earn some money, can go out for a job at the amusement park at Rye. Westchester County is hosting the second of three job fairs to hire staff for the famous park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 17. The first 100 applicants at the job fair, which will be held at Rye Playland (1 Playland Pkwy., Rye), can interview on-the-spot. Salaries start at $16.60 per hour.

1 month ago | academic.oup.com | Alexandra Wilson

In Britain today, opera is routinely called elitist. But things were not always thus. Examining shifting cultural attitudes over the century from 1920 to 2020, Someone Else’s Music recounts a hidden history of popular opera-going in Britain, which defies the opera-elitism stereotype. At the same time, the book traces how, when, and why that stereotype arose, revealing it to be a politically motivated idea founded in deep-seated British anxieties about class, education, national identity, and money.

1 month ago | engelsbergideas.com | Oscar Wilde |Alexandra Wilson

Cream linen, striped blazers, straw boaters. Tennis parties, cycling excursions, lazy afternoons on the river. ‘Jerusalem’, ‘I was glad’, music-hall songs. This is what the word ‘Edwardian’ conjures up for me, my impressions of the era shaped by E. Nesbit, refined by E.M. Forster, and no doubt distorted by films and television dramas that may or may not have done it justice.

Mar 25, 2025 | thecritic.co.uk | Alexandra Wilson

This article is taken from the April 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Up and down the land, university managers are waging war on their arts and humanities departments. Music is the discipline that is most beleaguered. First there was the Battle of Oxford Brookes, in which I was an early casualty.