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Alexandra Wilson

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Academic | Author | Cultural commentator Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · Jul 11

My author copies arrived! This is my sixth book and the one of which I am most proud: a sweeping history of the British relationship with opera over the last century.

Available in 🇺🇸 this month, on Kindle immediately, and in 🇬🇧 and Europe in October.

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Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social · 8h

My new article is out in Nineteenth-Century Music Review! ‘Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire’ explores how 19th-century sailors’ songs reflect the noisy, lively, often precarious world of London’s docklands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#MaritimeHistory #Musicology #SeaShanties

Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire | Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core

Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire

www.cambridge.org

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you.

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Fear not, it is not about operas by British composers! (I mean, Britten gets a few mentions, but only in passing.)

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon link here: www.amazon.co.uk/Someone-Else...

Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British

Buy Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British by Wilson, Alexandra (ISBN: 9780197803639) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 1d

This book means more to me than any other book I have written. I want to get copies into the hands of everyone who cares about opera or is interested in the broader cultural history of our country.

Please consider buying a copy. Thank you. 🙏

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

Durham Station Road, painting by Eric Thompson (b.1947). #NorthernArt

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 3d

There's been an annoying glitch in publisher supply chains for my new book just at the point of UK publication (boo) but Amazon has copies (hurrah!). Buy yours while stocks last!

Also available with no issues in the US and immediately on Kindle.

www.amazon.co.uk/Someone-Else...

Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British: Amazon.co.uk: Wilson, Alexandra: 9780197803639: Books

Buy Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British by Wilson, Alexandra (ISBN: 9780197803639) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 3d

Booking is now open for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:

'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd

6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians 1/2

Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother

This is the annual Royal Historical Society Lecture.

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · Aug 27

Students can be customers, or they can get a university education.

They can't do both.

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · Sep 1

Universities are getting away with selling the idea they are research institutions (with associated degree value) after having abandoned research.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 10d

Oh no... Disillusioned with the other two main platforms, I was thinking recently about giving it a go!

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 13d

But then again, on a recent rubbishy BBC game show, participants were played extracts of "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and they all called it a song. Is it feasible that even young music graduates might be doing similarly? 😱

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 13d

AI alert, surely.

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 13d

I went to the new Tosca at Covent Garden and this is what I thought.

engelsbergideas.com/reviews/an-u...

An unflinching Tosca

The controversial Anna Netrebko has staged a breathtaking comeback. Each note of her ‘Vissi d’arte’ pulsates with emotion.

engelsbergideas.com

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 13d

"Female" as a noun is OK for nature documentaries or police dramas but in every other context is demeaning to women. We aren't animals or criminals.

American usage, as ever, is different.

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 14d

Female is an adjective and anyone using it as a noun makes themselves sound stupid.

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 14d

At this event I will be talking to singer Adriana Festeu and Christopher White, Head of Opera at the RAM, about the opera-elitism stereotype and how things differ between Britain and Germany. Free to attend and open to all but you need to book a space.

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please come along and hear me discussing my new book "Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British" at this event at the Royal Academy of Music on 26 September.

www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/ope...

Opera's Social Status | Royal Academy of Music

www.ram.ac.uk

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 20d

My review of the Radical Harmony (aka Pointillist) exhibition at the National Gallery.

Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 20d

Visionary German collector Helene Kröller-Müller championed Van Gogh and the Neo-Impressionists long before the art world recognised their worth.

Helene Kröller-Müller’s radical eye |
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Helene Kröller-Müller’s radical eye

Visionary German collector, Helene Kröller-Müller, championed Van Gogh and the Neo-Impressionists long before the art world recognised their worth.

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 20d

Great! 😃

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 20d

Is this a novel???

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 24d

Definitely a model to apply to @gwr.com with its endless "points problems between Reading and Paddington" and "too many trains need fixing at the same time" cancellations.

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 24d

I just thought companies had agreements to avoid all doing the same works in quick succession.