Dreaming of Spires: An Ode to Oxford

Of languid summers and gated quadrangles; of gothic arches 
and stoned walls; of ink on fingertips and stolen kisses in the 
library; of shaded picnics and butterfly nets; of fleeting ecstasy 
and melancholic ruminations; of snow upon sills and elbows 
upon desks; of furtive rendezvous' and failed exams; of wise 
old wine and weeping willows; of interwar innocence and forgotten 
friends; to Brideshead and Blackwell's; to battered novels and 
broken whispers; to the folly of youth and the ache of remembrance.

i / david arnold - running in the garden (first sight)

ii / adrian johnston - the lido (city of spires)

iii / the miller brothers - life is just a bowl of cherries (“isn’t it grand?”)

iv / angelo badalamenti - caitlin’s theme (fancy dress party)

v / rachel portman - i might have (the bodleian)

vi /  james newton howard - newcastle (to the river!)

vii / shaun davey - the reluctant duellists (fencing lessons)

viii / marius de vries - in the library (confession in the astronomy section)

ix / jorge arriagada - bonbon waltz (michaelmas ball)

x / holst - gigue from ‘st paul’s suite’ (oxford vs. cambridge!)

xi / philippe rombi - inspiration (no telegram today)

xii / raphael beau - train bleu (riverside feast)

xiii / benny goodman & his orchestra - if i had you (“not terribly sober, darling”)

xiv / henry purcell - hornpipe in d minor (late!)

xv / niall byrne - a partial view (midnight in the chapel)

xvi / w.a. mozart - non vieni del tardar from ‘le nozze di figaro’ (the portrait)

xvii / choir of new college, oxford - faure medley (“pie jesu & ave verum corpus”) (evensong)

xviii / mychael danna - the real world (goodbye…for now)

xix / noel coward - the party’s over now

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