Mozart in the jungle
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"In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Gelsey Kirkland's Dancing on My Grave comes an insider's look into the secret world of classical musicians." "From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, oboist Blair Tindall has been playing classical music professionally for twenty-five years. In Mozart in the Jungle, Tindall exposes the scandalous rock-and-roll lifestyles of the musicians and conductors who inhabit the insular world of classical music." "Mozart in the Jungle offers a stark contrast between the rarefie
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It almost seems as if some people believe that music hasn't really evolved in the last century. I have been binging 'Mozart in the Jungle' and remeber one part where they were trying to tie into contemporary composition. They just stuck a loop of some random keyboarding by 'the maestro' into a fairly simple extremely loud EDM track that…
on “Bach's Holy Dread” ↗Talk about an industry needing to adapt to survive. But it reminds me of a quote from Mozart in the Jungle "classical music has been losing money for people for 500 years". Or something like that. I guess either some HN mod enjoys classical music or it is something people love discussing. And as a web designer,…
on “Voices of Music” ↗