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
Schlagwörter: Mahler 8th
Everything that is wrong with „Mozart in the Jungle“, Episode 3: „Silent Symphony“
Werbung 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. Werbung 2. Rodrigo’s conducting again is awful – he would be laughed off stage if he...
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…
