Jessica Duchen
@jessicaduchen.bsky.social
Classical music critic, author, librettist. MYRA HESS - NATIONAL TREASURE out now and available from https://www.kahnandaverill.co.uk/product/myra-hess-national-treasure/
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
So excited to hear this at last! A very special composer who carried a complex, startling story.
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
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November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
So excited to hear this at last! A very special composer who carried a complex, startling story.
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Fabulous article by Dr Samantha Ege ahead of tomorrow’s release. @leahbroad.bsky.social
Out of the shadows: why Avril Coleridge-Taylor deserves to be heard
The daughter of the British composer Samuel made controversial choices that took her on a different path to her father’s activism. Ahead of the premiere recording of her piano concerto, its soloist lo...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Fabulous article by Dr Samantha Ege ahead of tomorrow’s release. @leahbroad.bsky.social
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Young people who take part in arts and cultural activities experience a significant improvement in life satisfaction, equivalent to that experienced by an unemployed adult who gets a job, according to researchers at the University of Manchester.
Arts give young people well-being boost valued at £10,000 - Arts Professional
Young people who take part in arts and cultural activities experience a significant improvement in life satisfaction, equivalent to that experienced by an
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November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Young people who take part in arts and cultural activities experience a significant improvement in life satisfaction, equivalent to that experienced by an unemployed adult who gets a job, according to researchers at the University of Manchester.
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‘The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible.’
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
‘The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible.’
Tonight it's WAGNER'S WOMEN for the Wagner Society of Scotland, in cyberspace - please log on at 6.30pm! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jessica-du...
Jessica Duchen – Wagner’s Women
The topic is a look at Wagner’s path towards creating the most extraordinary female characters in the operatic world of his time.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Tonight it's WAGNER'S WOMEN for the Wagner Society of Scotland, in cyberspace - please log on at 6.30pm! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jessica-du...
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WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
In case you'd like to hear WAGNER'S WOMEN but couldn't make it to the London Singers' Collective evening at National Opera Studio yesterday, I have a short-notice repeat run tomorrow, >online< at 6.30pm, for the Wagner Society of Scotland.
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Jessica Duchen – Wagner’s Women
The topic is a look at Wagner’s path towards creating the most extraordinary female characters in the operatic world of his time.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In case you'd like to hear WAGNER'S WOMEN but couldn't make it to the London Singers' Collective evening at National Opera Studio yesterday, I have a short-notice repeat run tomorrow, >online< at 6.30pm, for the Wagner Society of Scotland.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jessica-du...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jessica-du...
(The true function of a libretto!)
“Give me a laundry bill and I will set it to music.”
The great Gioachino Rossini died on this day in 1868. Here, our editor picks his ten greatest works:
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The great Gioachino Rossini died on this day in 1868. Here, our editor picks his ten greatest works:
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
(The true function of a libretto!)
Quick reminder to Wagnerites that we are doing this at the National Opera Studio, Wandsworth, tonight...
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Wagner's Women
An exploration of the development of Richard Wagner's early operatic heroines.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Quick reminder to Wagnerites that we are doing this at the National Opera Studio, Wandsworth, tonight...
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
Looking forward to talking WAGNER on Friday! With music from soprano Valerija Iljin and pianist Daniel Silcock, at the National Opera Studio.
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Wagner's Women
An exploration of the development of Richard Wagner's early operatic heroines.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Looking forward to talking WAGNER on Friday! With music from soprano Valerija Iljin and pianist Daniel Silcock, at the National Opera Studio.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wagners-wo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wagners-wo...
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Petition protesting the closure of Nottingham's music department ✍️
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Petition protesting the closure of Nottingham's music department ✍️
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Out today: Avril Coleridge-Taylor: ‘In Memoriam - To the RAF’ (1945).
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November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Out today: Avril Coleridge-Taylor: ‘In Memoriam - To the RAF’ (1945).
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We need to listen to musicians, not tell them to ‘shut up and play’, and here’s why.
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Why we need to stop telling classical musicians to 'shut up and play'
Too often musicians' voices are silenced on politics. But we need them now more than ever
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November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
We need to listen to musicians, not tell them to ‘shut up and play’, and here’s why.
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Looking forward enormously to doing a little Wagner evening...I'll be talking about Wagner's musical cauldron and the soprano Valerija Iljin sings extracts from Senta, Elisabeth, Sieglinde and the Wesendonck Lieder. 14 Nov, National Opera Studio
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wagners-wo...
Wagner's Women
An exploration of the development of Richard Wagner's early operatic heroines.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Looking forward enormously to doing a little Wagner evening...I'll be talking about Wagner's musical cauldron and the soprano Valerija Iljin sings extracts from Senta, Elisabeth, Sieglinde and the Wesendonck Lieder. 14 Nov, National Opera Studio
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wagners-wo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wagners-wo...
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"Her rise to fame has been breathtaking, as is her versatility," @jessicaduchen.bsky.social writes in the new 'Opera Now' cover story, 'Julia Bullock: A Universal Voice.' You can read it at www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/fe...
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Her rise to fame has been breathtaking, as is her versatility," @jessicaduchen.bsky.social writes in the new 'Opera Now' cover story, 'Julia Bullock: A Universal Voice.' You can read it at www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/fe...
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Thangam Debbonaire to head new UK opera trade body
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October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thangam Debbonaire to head new UK opera trade body
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Off to @wigmore_hall to hear @fhvln and @MartinRoscoe1 strut some formidable stuff tonight. And fortunately it takes my mind off packing for tomorrow (I love being in new places, but hate having to get there…).
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Off to @wigmore_hall to hear @fhvln and @MartinRoscoe1 strut some formidable stuff tonight. And fortunately it takes my mind off packing for tomorrow (I love being in new places, but hate having to get there…).
Coming up on Friday: Lara Melda and I tell the story of Myra Hess in the National Gallery, in, what else, a lunchtime concert. We will be in the same space she used, Room 36! Admission freeeeee. Please join us!
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Myra Hess Festival: Lunchtime Concert 2025 - Jessica Duchen and Lara Melda | Events | National Gallery, London
Jessica Duchen, author of Myra Hess – National Treasure, joins forces with the award-winning pianist Lara Melda to tell the inspiring story of Myra Hess and her wartime National Gallery Concerts in wo...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Coming up on Friday: Lara Melda and I tell the story of Myra Hess in the National Gallery, in, what else, a lunchtime concert. We will be in the same space she used, Room 36! Admission freeeeee. Please join us!
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...
TONIGHT! Hear Myra Hess play, as the Musical Museum and the Player Piano Group hold an evening devoted to her Duo-Art piano rolls.
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Myra Hess in Concert
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October 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
TONIGHT! Hear Myra Hess play, as the Musical Museum and the Player Piano Group hold an evening devoted to her Duo-Art piano rolls.
www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/event/myra-h...
www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/event/myra-h...
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Here's Claudia Pritchard's write up of the Critics' Circle Music Awards 2025:
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Music Awards 2025, celebrating a year of outstanding achievement | The Critics' Circle
More than 80 leading figures from across Britain’s musical landscape came together at the sparkling Critics’ Circle Music Awards, held at the London Coliseum, a ceremony that honoured musicians who ma...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here's Claudia Pritchard's write up of the Critics' Circle Music Awards 2025:
criticscircle.org.uk/music-awards...
criticscircle.org.uk/music-awards...
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Metronome markings: blessing or curse?
September 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Metronome markings: blessing or curse?
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I went to the new Tosca at Covent Garden and this is what I thought.
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An unflinching Tosca
The controversial Anna Netrebko has staged a breathtaking comeback. Each note of her ‘Vissi d’arte’ pulsates with emotion.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I went to the new Tosca at Covent Garden and this is what I thought.
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