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Mozart in the jungle book pdf Continue From his debut concert at Carnegie Hall to performances with Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, oboist Blair Tindall has been playing classical music professionally for twenty-five years. She also lived the secret life of musicians who survive hand-in-hand, trading sex and drugs for low-paid concerts and promising to win a rare symphony position or lucrative solo recording contract. In Mozart's Jungle, Tindall delves into his own life and the lives of musicians and show conductors inhabit the island world of classical music. After having an affair with her forty-three-year-old teacher at the age of sixteen, Tindall graduates from North Carolina School of Art on the back of biting the New York classical music scene, a world where classical musicians trade sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in musicals and orchestras across the city. Tindall and her fellow apprentice musicians often play drunk, tall, or hopelessly hungover, live in dilapidated apartments, and perform in dangerous conditions - within the close confines of a Broadway pit, a decibel level of a single instrument equals the sound of a chainsaw. Mozari in the Jungle offers a stark contrast between the rarefied experience of overpaid classical musician superstars and those of working-class musicians who schelp around the city from low-paid gigs to low-paid gigs, without health benefits or retirement plans. For classical music lovers, Mozart in the Jungle is the first true, behind-the-scenes look at what's going on behind the scenes and in the pits of Broadway. Blair Tindall writes about classical music for the New York Times and performed, toured and recorded with the New York Philharmonic. She taught journalism at Stanford University and oboe at the University of California, Berkeley. American TV series Mozart in the JungleGenreComidi-dramaSam onAnzart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Musicby Blair Tindall Developed Roman Coppola Jason Schwartzman Alex Timbers Paul Weitz Starring Lola Kirke Gael Garcia Bernan Burroughs Bernadette Peter Wak Hannah Dunn Malcolm McDowell Theme Episodes40 (episode list)ProductionExecutive Producer (s) Roman Coppola Jason Schwartzman Paul Weitz Production Location (s) New York CityVenice, ItalyCamera setSingle cameraRunning time26-30 minutesProduction company (s) American Zoetrop Field Picrow Amazon Studios DistributorAma DistributorAmazon.comReleaseOriginal NetworkAmazon 2014 (2014-02-06) - February 16, 2018 (2018-02-16)External linksEBebcyt Mozart in the Jungle is an American comedy-drama web series, developed by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Alex Timbers, and Paul Weitz for Amazon Video. The show received an order for production in March 2014. The story was inspired by Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music, a 2005 memoir by oboist Blair Tindall about her professional career in New York, playing various high-profile concerts with ensembles including the New York Philharmonic and orchestras of numerous Broadway shows. The series stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Rodrigo, a character based on the conductor Gustavo Dudamel, along with Lola Kirk, Malcolm McDowell, Saffron Burroughs, Hannah Dunn, Peter Vac and Bernadette Peters. The first season premiered on December 23, 2014. The show's second season update was announced by Amazon on February 18, 2015. All episodes of the second season were available online December 30, 2015. On February 9, 2016, the third season was announced. All episodes of the third season were available online December 9, 2016. On January 30, 2017, Amazon announced that the series had been renewed for a fourth season, which was released on February 16, 2018. On April 6, 2018, Amazon canceled the show after four seasons. Starring and characters Are Home starring Lola Kirk as Hayley Rutledge, a oboist with a desire to play with the New York Symphony. It develops a strong bond with Rodrigo as the series progresses. Gael Garcia Bernal as Rodrigo De Souza, new conductor of the New York Symphony Bernadette Peters as Gloria Windsor, President of the New York Symphony (recurring, season 1; seasons 2-4) Malcolm McDowell as Thomas Pembridge, honorary conductor of the New York Symphony Saffron Burroughs as Cynthia Taylor, cellist with the New York Symphony Hannah Dunn , Neighbor Haley and best friend Peter Wack, as Alex Merriweather, dancer as Betty Cragdale, a longtime oboist for the New York Symphony who instantly despises Haley Mark Blum as Union Bob, a piccolo player for the symphony and known for bringing up union rules Jennifer Kim as , concertmaster of the symphony Nora Arneeseder as Anna Maria, Rodrigo's estranged violinist wife John Miller as Dee Dee, a drug dealer percussionist of New York Symphony Brennan Brown as Edward Biben, a board member of the Gretchen Mole Orchestra as Nina Robertson, a New York Symphony lawyer who falls in love with Cynthia Mackenzie Lee as Addison, Alex's dance partner and roommate Margaret Ladd as Claire, Thomas's ex-wife, who dies after hearing his completed symphony. Jason Schwartzman as Bradford Sharp, classical music enthusiast and host of John Hodgman's own B-Sharpe podcast in Marlene Guggenheim, an alleged billionaire, passionate about Hayley Wallace like Winslow Elliott, the neurotic pianist of the concert. Tenoh Huerta Mejia as Manuel, a childhood friend of Rodrigo Dermot Mulroney as Andrew Walsh, the cello soloist who fraternies with Haley. Monica Bellucci as Alessandra, a reclusive Italian soprano who lives in Venice, Italy, also known as La fiamma. Ana Maria Martinez provides the voice of Alessandra singing. Sandro Isaac as Pavel, the stage director of the orchestra who is friends with Gloria. Philip Jackson Smith as Mike Margusa, a friend of Hayley's whom she recruits to work in the orchestra. Christian Coulson as Sebastian, a member of Andrew Walsh's orchestra, who later became a member of Hayley's orchestra and moved into her apartment. Cole Escola as Sean, Hayley's flatmate and a member of her orchestra who also becomes Sebastian's boyfriend. Santino Fontana in the Mozart family, with whom Rodrigo often talks in his imagination. David Turner, as Liberace, briefly replaces Mozart, as Muse Rodrigo Episodes Main article: List of Mozart in the Jungle episodes SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedFirst aired110February 6, 2014 (2014-02-06)23 December 2014 (2014-12-23)210 December 30, 2015 (2015-2015-23)210 December 30, 2015 (2015-2015-23)210 December 30, 2015 (2015-2015-23)210, 2015 12- 30)3102 December 2016 (2016-12-09)4101016 February 2018 (2018-02-16) Productions Many solo oboes performed by the main character and other characters throughout the series performed by Lelies Renick , the main oboist Hollywood Bowl Orchestra , while Rodrigo's character is loosely based on Gustavo Dudamel, the Venezuelan music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Dudamel coached Garcia Bernal before the latter conducted, in Rodrigo's character, for a real performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the scenes of which were used for the second opener of the season. Dudamel has a cameo in this episode, acting as the scene tries to convince Rodrigo to move to Los Angeles. Other musicians who have cameos in the series are violinist Joshua Bell, pianists Emanuel Ax and Lang Lang, composers Anton Coppola and Nico Muhly, Broadway star Brian D'Arcy James and conductors Alan Gilbert and Bernard Uzan. Blair Tindall, a oboist and author of the book on which the series is based, also appears in a cameo. Most of the original music for the show (primarily Impromptu and other works presented as part of the continuity of the Thomas Pembridge show) is written by the famous contemporary composer Missy Mazzoli. For more experimental music, Pembridge's season four show reached out to another female composer, Laura Karpman. Irish composer and conductor Aimear Noone was Lola Kirk's trainer in Season 4. Inside footage of the home concert hall was filmed at the SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Center. Focus on female composers and conductors In addition to the behind-the-scenes contributions of Mazzoli, Karpman and Noone, theme or unfairly forgotten or overlooked women composers and conductors in the world of classical music became central to the screen in the third and fourth seasons of the show. Historic female composers who appear in the show include Viteslava Kapralova, Isabella Leonarda, Nannerl Mozart and Fanny Mendelsohn. The fourth season featured Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composer Caroline Shaw appearing as herself (and the characters perform one of her actual compositions). Composer Paola Prestini also makes a brief cameo in Season 4, playing one of her own compositions. Receiving Critical Response Critical Response Critical Response Of Mozart in the Jungle SeasonRotten TomatoesMetacritic191% (35 views) 22-3100% (15 reviews) Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the series a fresh 95% rating, based on 20 reviews of critics, with a critical consensus Although limited to the isolated world of classical music, the jungle of Gael Garcia Bernal makes this charming little show sing. Metacritic gave the series 73 out of 100, indicating generally favorable reviews. Corey Barker, writing for TV.com, praised the show. What works so well that Mozart isn't afraid to throw you into a world you're probably unfamiliar with, but it doesn't float so far into the deep end that you immediately drown in jargon and distanced yourself in dramatic stakes. Robert Lloyd, writing for The Los Angeles Times, also praised the first season. He stated that the characters that were mouthpieces for the relationship were beginning to seem more complicated than the description of the sketch could hold. You grow interested in what will become of them without expecting or rooting for any particular outcome. Rolling Stone's Corey Rusty also praised the series, writing that thanks to quirky scripts and smart ensemble cast..