Blog | Julia Hollander

The Letter

by julia | Oct 6, 2020 | Diary, Front Page, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Another outing for my radio programme from last year, about my grandfather's escape from Nazi Czechoslovakia thanks to a letter from the BBC - on sunday oct 4 and then on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rv6...

Songs of Hope and Renewal – Holywell, Oxford, Sept 26

by julia | Sep 11, 2020 | Diary, Front Page, Gigs, Singing | 0 Comments

https://www.facebook.com/smvoxford/videos/768415154011309 September 26, 5pm and 8pm See you there

Summer Lockdown Concert – Poulenc/Strauss/Marx

by julia | Sep 11, 2020 | Diary, Gigs, Singing | 0 Comments

Come back from the beach to - A concert on one of the hottest days of the year in the cool and beautiful peace of a locked down High Street, Oxford. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=622418388404037 Poulenc surreal cheek and joy. Straussian sensuality and something...

Trees for Life – monday june 8

by julia | Jun 7, 2020 | Diary, Front Page, Gigs, Singing | 0 Comments

https://youtu.be/uWMPOZS6po4

Quarantine Song

by julia | Mar 19, 2020 | Diary, Singing | 0 Comments

So - schools are dismissed. Of my four students due for lessons this morning, only two turn up - the other two already in isolation at home. Seventeen year-old David [name changed] arrives promptly at 8.45, complaining of a gunky chest but sure it isn't a symptom of...

Musing on what these Cancellations mean

by julia | Mar 18, 2020 | Diary, Eventify Events, Front Page | 0 Comments

I had three concerts lined up for the next couple of weeks - all of them cancelled due to Covid19. I want to try and think about what that means in terms of my community - who my music touches. The first was a big Beethoven 250-year celebration - a local choir and...

Climate Change and Spirituality Podcasts

by julia | Feb 3, 2020 | Diary, Front Page | 0 Comments

This isn't about singing, but it is my voice (and others') - a series of podcasts for the Oxford University Church about the spiritual crisis that is part of our current climate crisis. Aiming at one a month. First up - reliable scientific context from IPCC author...

Sublime

by julia | Feb 3, 2020 | Diary, Front Page, Singing | 0 Comments

Aha - I just found a review of the Bach Christmas Oratorio I sang in before Christmas - 'sublime alto' they call me. https://www.great-milton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Dec-2019.pdf Of course, I was far too concerned with my 'Christmassy' outfit (a glittery...

November 22 – Holywell Concert

by julia | Oct 29, 2019 | Diary, Eventify Events, Front Page, Gigs | 0 Comments

Julia Hollander, Peter McMullin and Anna Snesar Present English and Czech music for voice, piano and violin GOD MADE A TREE Holywell Music Room, Holywell St, Oxford 7.30pm, Friday November 22, 2019 Free Entrance - Donations to RAIN - Agroforestry in Brazil...

The letter

by julia | Apr 10, 2019 | Diary, Front Page | 2 Comments

This is what I was working on last year, with producer Dixi Stewart https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002rv6 A BBC Radio 3 programme about my family - including current members thereof. Listen and let me know what you think...

In the hothouse – concert march 7

by julia | Feb 28, 2019 | Diary, Front Page, Gigs | 0 Comments

A recital of art songs built around the centrepiece of Wagner's 'Im Treibhaus' - 'In the Hothouse' - all about our relationship with the natural world. Pete McMullin plays the wonderful Steinway piano in Holywell Music Room. Also introducing a recently re-discovered...

Rockabye

by julia | Dec 7, 2018 | Diary, Front Page, Singing, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

In a dingy Viennese coffee house, the woman behind the bar isn’t just enjoying her playlist on the PA system - she is joining in, her grainy voice (Austrian accent fully Americanised) rising above the whoosh of the milk frother, ‘So rockabye, rockabye…’ I admire her...