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Blair Alston Mercer Tindall, MA ’00, a Grammy-nominated oboist, journalist, and author, died of cardiovascular disease on April 12. She was 63. Tindall began playing the oboe at age 8, when the band director at her elementary school doled out instruments. The double-reed woodwind “spoke my emotions more directly than my own voice,” she ...
Blair Tindall's book combines a personal memoir of her years as a gigging oboist in New York's Upper West Side musicians' ghetto with a trenchant analysis of what's wrong with classical music today. No other book I know on the subject does this to such powerful effect; she leaves us with a disturbing, fact-filled portrait of American musical life that is both humorous and human."
21 de mar. de 2015 · Blair Tindall intended to write a book about the rise of culture in late 20th-century America. Trained in journalism after she gave up her professional music career, she wanted to blow the "classical music is dying" fallacy out of the water.
On this night Blair Tindall read from her memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music (Atlantic Monthly Press). Tindall, a graduate of both the Manhattan School of Music and the Stanford journalism program, a woman who has written for the New York Times and played for the New York Philharmonic, then did what she’s always done best in front of a crowd: performed on the oboe.
28 de ago. de 2005 · Oboeist-turned-journalist Blair Tindall gives a very different perspective in her book Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music. Her insider's account tells two stories -- an analysis ...
26 de abr. de 2023 · Even her New York Times obituary ran under the headline: “Blair Tindall, Whose Music Memoir Scandalized, Dies at 63.” And that’s the real tragedy: In the pre-#MeToo era, when we had yet to shift from feminism’s third wave into its fourth, it was easy—even forgivable—to miss what Tindall left hidden in plain sight.
18 de abr. de 2023 · Blair and I were friends and colleagues as young musicians in New York in the later ’70s. She was already a first-class oboist, great to work with, and a lot of fun to hang out with.
