Everything that is wrong in „Mozart in the Jungle“, Episode 9 „Now Fortissimo“
I know that it is supposed to be exaggerated, but bitchy principal oboes teaching methods are highly dubious to say the least. What’s with the corset and the cold water?
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The blurred Line of 21st Century Song
While studying composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, I saw a very special “senior recital” towards the end of Spring semester 2015. The recital was given by tenor Sam Grosby, and the concert was pretty standard for an Eastman recital—it contained some Beethoven, some Rachmaninoff, etc., the essential repertoire for any operatic vocalist wishing to graduate with a degree.
Everything that is wrong in „Mozart in the Jungle“, Episode 8, „Mozart with the Bacon“
More nitpicking in our favorite series, „Mozart in the Jungle“, Season 1
Everything that is wrong in „Mozart in the Jungle“ Episode 7
Again nitpicking the musical „realism“ of „Mozart in the Jungle“….
Everything that is wrong with „Mozart in the Jungle“, Season 1, Episode 6
Of course there is nothing wrong with „Mozart in the Jungle“. But let’s nitpick a little!
Mythology, Pride, and Basinski (guest article by Jake Bellissimo)
The scene is set with a picture well-known to many: a 43 year-old William Basinski and friends sitting on the roof of his apartment building in Brooklyn, listening closely to an album he had just finished while watching the World Trade Center towers collapse on the morning of September 11th, 2001.
Everything that is wrong with „Mozart in the Jungle“, Season 1, Episode 5 „I’m with the Maestro“
The nitpicking of every episode of „Mozart in the Jungle“ continues. Now with added video!
Why we don’t need the Avant-garde anymore (guest article by Jake Bellissimo)
“Oh, they’re an experimental composer.”
“They’re on the forefront of the avant-garde.”
“I’m really into avant-garde music.”
These are all phrases that you hear on a regular basis if you frequent any sort of music community. Started as a term with French origin (literally translating to “advance guard”) to mean the basis of music, art, film, and literature that was on the “experimental side”, avant-garde has slowly become a synonym for what we refer to as “new music”. However, there are a few ways in which labels such as avant-garde or experimental bring up complications in the art music community.
Everything that is wrong with „Mozart in the Jungle“, Episode 3: „Silent Symphony“
SILENT SYMPHONY 1. Rodrigo’s assistant standing directly behind him during the orchestra rehearsal? This would be considered extremely rude and inappropriate in real life. Conductor’s assistants usually sit in the hall making notes. 2. Rodrigo’s conducting again is awful – he would be laughed off stage if he tried that...
Everything that is wrong with „Mozart in the Jungle“, Episode 2: FIFTH CHAIR
Of course there is nothing wrong with „Mozart in the Jungle“. It’s a great and funny series with fantastic actors, witty scripts and a theme that is not of your usual run-of-the-mill comedy soap. It is also based on a book which I recommended in the Neue Musikzeitung a while ago, even though readers will recognize little from the true life stories of New York oboist Blair Tindall in the TV version.
Nevertheless, watching the series as a classical musician makes you wonder how much exactly the producers actually know about the real world of classical music. And I don’t mean the sex and the drugs, because these certainly exist in classical music.
And because nitpicking is kind of fun, I present to you an ongoings series of in-depth analysis of the mistakes or at least idiosyncracies that crop up in…
