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Apr 19, 2023 · Blair Tindall, a freelance oboist and journalist who drew on both of those abilities to write “Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music,” an eyebrow-raising 2005 memoir that...
MORE PRAISE FOR "MOZART IN THE JUNGLE. "Blair Tindall blows the lid off the world of classical music in this book that transcends the genre of memoir. While an intensely personal and revealing story, Mozart in the Jungle is also fine investigative journalism, with an abiding sense of history.
Mar 21, 2015 · Blair Tindall, a former oboist, shares her story of writing a controversial book about her life in classical music and how it inspired a TV show. She talks about the challenges, the impact, and the creative license of the adaptation by Roman Coppola.
Blair Alston Mercer Tindall (February 2, 1960 – April 12, 2023) was an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and journalist. After spending years as a classical musician, she wrote the 2005 memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, which was later adapted into a television series .
May 3, 2016 · The dust jacket of Blair Tindall's book markets it as a hard-hitting expose of the sordid underbelly of classical music, by a performer-turned-muckraking journalist who saw it all. Really, though, it's the not uninteresting memoir of one talented but insecure woman's life and career.
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In a book that inspired the Amazon Original series starring Gael García Bernal and Malcolm McDowell, oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician—from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical ...
Apr 17, 2023 · Blair Tindall, the concert oboist whose 2005 memoir Mozart In The Jungle was adapted into a hit 2014 comedy-drama series on Amazon Prime, died of heart disease in Los Angeles on April 12....
