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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2006/11
From: Alyssa Miller <alphie@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] re: Mozart in the Jungle, Blair Tindall
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:01:33 -0500
This discussion is very interesting for me, as I read Mozart in the Jungle
about a month ago, this being the first year of my MMus (oboe performance)
degree. I wish I had caught the discussion that Dr. Finkelstein refers to!
This book raised a lot of questions in my mind. I see a lot of
undergraduate music students at my university that struggle with the "what
happens next?" part of attaining a music degree - unsure of the real world
and a musician's place in it (financially and interpersonally). And
although I think, through my (limited) experience, there are still
possibilities out there for talented and dedicated musicians, Tindall's
struggles with her career (particularly the non-interpersonal struggles)
highlighted struggles that some young players experience as they begin to
venture outside of the college rehearsal hall. Stage anxiety, auditions,
self-medication, financial instability, contemplation of change of career
path, relationship struggles... Reading Tindall's frank and at times
emotionally charged memories really pushed me to examine my own life,
performances, auditions, anxiety, reeds, relationships, finances, career
options (although not even near as scandalous or outrageous as hers!) and
in doing so the reading created a catharic process for me. The rampant
hyperbole, in fact, presented the information in a way that I could identify
with, because at times it was so outrageous that it put my own life into
perspective (ain't so bad after all!). A more journalistic or scientific
style of writing would have countered the emotional effect I had when
reading it.
$0.02 from a Canadian oboist (longtime lurker on the listserv)
Alyssa
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