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Jessica

  • Gender: Female
  • Astrological Sign: Sagittarius
  • Industry: Arts
  • Occupation: Jessica Duchen is a novelist and music journalist
  • Location: London : United Kingdom

About Me

Novelist, music journalist for The Independent, orchestra spouse and cat owner. www.jessicaduchen.co.uk

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

Very happily, preferably in the south of Frogland!

Interests

  • Playing the piano
  • cooking
  • theatre
  • cinema
  • books
  • travelling to interesting places with traumatic histories.

Favorite Movies

  • Les enfants du Paradis
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
  • Un Coeur en Hiver
  • Wings of Desire
  • Mephisto
  • most Eric Rohmer
  • most Louis Malle
  • most Woody Allen

Favorite Music

  • Fauré
  • Korngold
  • Schubert
  • Ravel
  • Bach
  • Debussy
  • Chausson
  • Brahms
  • Schumann
  • Dvorak
  • Mozart
  • Bach
  • Rachmaninov and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Assorted jazz esp Louis Armstrong. World music: tango
  • sevdah
  • Cesaria Evora
  • Cuban
  • South African township. Jazz: lots.

Favorite Books

  • I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • First Love by Ivan Turgenev
  • Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
  • A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  • Immigrant Blues (poems) by Goran Simic

Jessica's Blogs

  Blog Name Team Members
View this  Blog Jessica Duchen's classical music blog  
View this  Blog Paws for thought...?  

Contact

  • My Web Page

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