Jessica

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About me

Gender	FEMALE
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Writer
Location	London, United Kingdom
Introduction	Words for, with and about music. Libretto for 'Silver Birch', Roxanna Panufnik's opera for Garsington 2017 ("powerful and poetic" - The Times). Latest novel 'Ghost Variations', based on the Schumann Violin Concerto's 1930s rediscovery. Performing narrated concerts based on it ("highly moving" - Birmingham Post) and others. Next projects: novel 'Meeting Odette' and new narrated concert 'Being Mrs Bach'. 28 years in music journalism. I'm not "a blogger". I'm a writer who has a blog. I receive lots of requests for coverage on JDCMB, but I'm afraid I can't do it all. Adverts are available. JDCMB uses cookies and by reading the site you agree to them. Contact via message to my public Facebook page www.jessicaduchen.co.uk
Interests	Books, music, ballet, theatre, cinema, playing the piano, cooking, travelling.
Favorite Movies	Les enfants du Paradis, La Strada, The Lives of Others, Apocalypse Now, Cinema Paradiso, Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Un Coeur en Hiver, Heimat, most Eric Rohmer, most Louis Malle, pretty much all the Ealing Comedies and a lot of Powell & Pressburger.
Favorite Music	Classical from 16th to 21st centuries. World music & jazz in many permutations. Secret passions include Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, the Beatles and REM. Championing women composers in particular, including Fanny Mendelssohn, Pauline Viardot, Lili Boulanger, Elizabeth Maconchy, 'Poldowski' and many others.
Favorite Books	Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Possession by A.S. Byatt, First Love by Ivan Turgenev, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, everything by Vladimir Nabokov, The Road Home by Rose Tremain, 26A by Diana Evans, Music and Silence by Rose Tremain, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, Immigrant Blues (poems) by Goran Simic

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

Very happily, preferably in the south of Frogland!