Patricia
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Singer |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Nostalgic singer keen to bring back pop songs written 70 to 150 years ago. Good music is good music! Equally keen to sing Bach and Handel. |
| Interests | Old sheet music, dead opera singers' autobiographies, Belle Epoque, Ragtime, reading, feeding spiders that look thin and sad, cats, 78rpm records, trunks full of mysterious and threadbare objects, museums, silent films... |
| Favorite movies | The Barefoot Contessa, Girl-Shy, Rio Bravo, Red River, The Misfits, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, A Mighty Wind, Babyface, Ziegfeld Girl, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The V.I.Ps, Pickup on South Street, Sadie McKee, The Man With the Golden Arm, Yojimbo, Ikiru, Stalker, Bardelys the Magnificent, the Way to the Stars, D.O.A... |
| Favorite music | Shostakovich, Bach, Suk, Dvorak, Brough, Petterson, Atterburg, Rangstrom. Singers Ninon Vallin, Zara Dolukhanova, Nitta-Jo, Gerard Souzay, Magda Olivero, Claudia Muzio, Hans Hotter, Miliza Korjus, Alice Faye, Rudy Vallee, Dick Powell, Deanna Durbin... |
| Favorite books | Soseki: The Three-Cornered World; Heyer: Regency Buck, the Grand Sophy, Friday's Child, Frederika, Arabella; Wilder: The Little House books; All of Raymond Chandler; R. W. Chambers: The King in Yellow; Zweig: The Post-Office Girl; Wolfe: From Bauhaus to Our House; Maugham: the Painted Veil, Theatre, short stories; J.B. Priestley: The Good Companions, Lost Empires, Bright Day, Angel Pavement; Beverley Nichols: Crazy Pavements, A Thatched Roof, Sweet and Twenties; Marx: Harpo Speaks; Cellini: Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini... |