In Mozart in the Jungle's fake New York, almost none of the players we see are Asian - whereas in reality, many American orchestras have a significant number of players of East Asian background and descent. And when I finish, it's like waking from a dream." - ATīending down on hand and knee to clean up bird poop with a scarf. But when I'm home, and I play to myself, I really don't think at all. She says the most beautiful thing: "When I play in front of my teacher, I'm mostly thinking about how I don't want to make a mistake. Rodrigo, mesmerized, seeks her out and asks her what she feels when she plays.
We watch a very young girl, Alice, play this music by Ibert on her flute. Written by Adam Brooks and Kate Gersten, and directed by Roman Coppola (who along with Schwartzman and Alex Timbers created Mozart), it's a lovely and dreamy episode artfully stitched with tons of tiny, emotionally truthful moments. Guest DJ: Gael García Bernal's Music Diariesįor me, the best episode in the first season without question is "You Go to My Head," episode 7. I appreciate how the show at least touches on some of the contemporary concerns about classical music, including tensions between the musicians union and management and crazy marketing schemes drummed up to spin the music as something hip for younger audiences. It's not a business."Īlways looking for fundraising opportunities, Gloria, the head of the symphony, admits that the orchestra's finances are in trouble. "Classical music has been losing money for people for 500 years. So yes, Hailey, you're probably something of a masochist.
They have to deal with an incredibly finicky instrument, constantly make and refine their equipment in a very time-consuming and mind-blowingly detailed process and, at least according to tradition, suffer a higher risk of serious and alarming injuries (especially to the eyes and brain). While some may think that willfully secluding oneself in the confines of classical music is its own form of masochism - considering an infamous academic study in which orchestral musicians demonstrated less job satisfaction than federal prison guards - one could argue that oboists have a particularly sorry lot.
Very occasionally, the show is absolutely on point. Don't you kind of have to be to play the oboe?"
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(The series is also stuffed with guest appearances, from violinist Joshua Bell as himself to Wallace Shawn playing a hyper-neurotic pianist in the tradition of Glenn Gould.)īetty: "What are you, some kind of masochist?" There's also a perky newcomer oboist named Hailey (modeled on Tindall), played by Lola Kirke the orchestra's general manager Gloria, in a believable turn by Bernadette Peters and Malcolm McDowell as the high-strung conductor replaced by Rodrigo.
The small-screen version depicts the fictitious New York Symphony on the threshold of its season-opening concert, the first with its charismatic but capricious new conductor Rodrigo (single name only, please!), played with goofy charm by Gael García Bernal and more than loosely inspired by Gustavo Dudamel, the dynamic Los Angeles Philharmonic music director. The 10-part series is based on a tell-all book of the same name published a decade ago by oboist Blair Tindall. Pill popping, pot smoking, back-stabbing, bed hopping and tantrum throwing - now we're talking classical music! At least that's what the new Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle would have us believe is all in a day's work for orchestra musicians. Gael García Bernal (right), Bernadette Peters and Malcolm McDowell star in the classical music comedy series Mozart in the Jungle.
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