Joumana Khatib
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1,079 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Joumana Khatib’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So our principal characters are John Field, who was an Irish prodigy.
He's apparently credited with having created the Nocturne Form before some guy named Chopin just took it and ran, wild.
And then we have Adelaide Percheron, who was born in Pondicherry, which I think was under French colonial rule at the time.
And she was mixed race and sort of not totally accepted by her family.
And she was orphaned.
And so there's some like levels of estrangement there.
Anyway, both of these ch children, as children,
Took real refuge in music.
I think John's talent was discovered a little earlier as in Adelaide's.
Adelaide's took her to Paris and then Moscow, which is where she met John.
And they embarked on a tempestuous and you know loving and complicated marriage in real life.
Anyway, she's a beautiful writer.
She's so astute about
kind of interior emotional states and and I just I really admire this.
I think it's elegant and informative and I learned something and these are new to me historical figures that are totally worth
Your time and attention.
Well, you will just have to read Music Against the Night by Yi Yan Lee.
left and right.
Well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
Well
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