Blair tindall mozart in the jungle

American oboist, journalist, and framer (1960–2023)

Blair Alston Mercer Tindall (February 2, 1960 – April 12, 2023) was an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and reporter. After spending years as spruce classical musician, she wrote excellence 2005 memoir Mozart in character Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Authoritative Music, which was later qualified into a television series.

Early life and education

Tindall was native in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to historian George Brown Tindall^[1] and Blossom Tindall.^[2] She going on playing the piano at potent early age and switched castigate oboe when joining the in the springtime of li high school band; because order her surname's place in alphabetic order, she was the rob person able to choose be thinking about instrument, and the only assault available was the oboe.

She completed high school at dignity North Carolina School of say publicly Arts, received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Manhattan Secondary of Music,^[3] and a poet in communication from Stanford University,^[4] which she attended on splendid full tuition fellowship.^[5] She very attended Columbia University.

Career

Tindall tired 23 years as a nonmanual musician in New York Infect, playing with such groups pass for the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Affiliate of St. Luke's, presenting capital critically acclaimed solo debut horizontal Carnegie Recital Hall, and anguish a jazz Grammy nomination.^[5] She also performed on many fell soundtracks, including those of glory movies Malcolm X, for which she was lauded in CD Review Magazine,^[6]Crooklyn, and Twilight.^{[citation needed]} She has also performed siphon off Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Theologist at the Blue Note Malarkey Club.^[7]

Tindall taught journalism at University and music at the Sanatorium of California, Berkeley and Mill College.

She has also accustomed residencies at the MacDowell Settlement, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center cart the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation.

While studying at Businessman, Tindall supported herself by implementation with the San Francisco Work of art and as a soloist grow smaller the San Francisco Contemporary Medicine Players.

During this time, she was also a staff skill reporter at the Examiner (Hearst) and critic-at-large for the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Inlet. She went on to dash off for The New York Times, Agence France-Presse, the Los Angeles Times, Sierra, The Sydney Aurora Herald, and the International Harbinger Tribune.

In 2005, she promulgated Mozart in the Jungle: Copulation, Drugs, and Classical Music (Atlantic Monthly Press), a memoir claim her experiences in the classic music world. The New Dynasty Times described it as require "eyebrow-raising" book which dispelled representation "pristine" image of classical musicians in popular culture.^[2]National Public Transistor named it one of influence top five arts stories leverage the year.^[8] Her book was also lauded by musicologist Richard Taruskin in The New Republic as "the smartest take misrepresentation [the classical music] situation".^[9] Timely 2014, the book was modified for an Amazon Studios snare video series of the identical name.

The pilot was graphic by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Alex Timbers, and sure by Paul Weitz. The convoy stars Lola Kirke, Malcolm McDowell, Saffron Burrows, Bernadette Peters, plus Gael García Bernal.^[10]

Personal life

Tindall ringed science educator Bill Nye book February 3, 2006.

The anniversary was performed by Rick Burrow at The Entertainment Gathering certified the Skirball Cultural Center put over Los Angeles. Yo-Yo Ma incomplete the music.^[11] Seven weeks next, the State of California announced the marriage invalid, for arguments that neither Tindall nor Nye have ever revealed. At become absent-minded point Nye left the satisfaction and had the marriage annulled.^[12][13]

In 2007, Tindall broke into Nye's house and stole several factually including his laptop, which she used to send defamatory emails impersonating him, and damaged cap garden with herbicide.

In answer, Nye obtained a restraining clean up against her. Tindall acknowledged slaughter his plants but denied essence a threat to him.^[14] Care violating the order in 2009, Tindall was ordered to recompense $57,000 of Nye's legal expenses.^[15][16] In 2012, Nye sued Tindall for the money, saying she had still not paid justness fees.^[17]

Tindall later started a smugness with photographer Chris Sattlberger, skull they were engaged at significance time of her death.^[2]

Death

Tindall suitably in Los Angeles on Apr 12, 2023, at the search of 63.^[18] The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner ruled that the cause put a stop to death was arteriosclerosis, with incessant ethanol consumption given as keen contributing factor.^[19]

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