A little idle surfing yesterday produced some information that gave me a pleasant surprise: a Google search on 'classical music blog' produces (!drumroll!) JDCMB at the top of the pile. I have no fond illusions of grandeur, though: I reckon it's simply because my title includes the words 'classical music blog'. I can assure everyone that there was nothing 'clever' about the way I chose the name in March 04.
JDCMB came into being almost by accident. Blogs weren't as much of a global phenomenon then as they are now and I'd never thought of looking for any devoted to classical music. In a quiet patch following some intensive work on Ravel, after which I felt a little flat, I thought I'd investigate Something New and logged on to Blogger to see how these funny things called blogs worked. Next thing I knew, a prompt was asking me to choose a name for my blog. I didn't know that other similar sites might have poetic, meaningful titles, so I typed in the first thing that came into my head: Jessica Duchen's Classical Music Blog, which seemed to say everything anybody needed to know. Bingo: one blog. Nobody could have been more surprised than I was. And here we are.
7 comments:
Ah, the wonders of syndication..
Did you hear that your Indy piece on musical novels ran in Friday's Australian (A Murdoch paper)?
No, I didn't! Thanks, Ken. The Australian also took the piece I wrote a few weeks back about Tony Palmer's new film on the history of the Salzburg Festival: my uncle and aunt in Sydney stumbled over it during breakfast and were somewhat surprised. Glad to hear the books piece appeared there as 'Rites' is on sale down under.
I haven't see Rites here yet. My favourite bookseller www.gleebooks.com.au hasn't got it - tho they do have the other 3. I must ask them.
What do you reckon? A 3 foot stack just as you come in the door?
sounds OK to me! :-)
Ken, I couldn't find the article on The Australian website. Is it online? If so, please could you send me the link?
Correction - I've now found it. And guess what they've cut? Any reference to my novel, including the fact that I've written one! BLOODY HELL. What did they think the point of that article was, anyway?!?
I have recently learned a useful phrase to respond to those who leave my work uncredited or cut my novel out of pieces that promote it: "BASZÓDJ MEG".
Of course, you can read the whole thing in all its glory in my website archive here
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