Blair Alston Mercer Tindall was an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and journalist best known for her bestseller 2005 book, Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music which was later made into an award winning Amazon TV series. Tindall grew up in a family of musicians, she began playing the oboe at a young age and went on to study music at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Juilliard School in New York. Tindall had a successful career as a professional oboist... moreBlair Alston Mercer Tindall was an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and journalist best known for her bestseller 2005 book, Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music which was later made into an award winning Amazon TV series. Tindall grew up in a family of musicians, she began playing the oboe at a young age and went on to study music at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Juilliard School in New York. Tindall had a successful career as a professional oboist and performed with several prestigious orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony. She was also a member of the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra and the Riverside Symphony. In addition to her music career, Tindall was a producer, speaker, and journalist. She wrote for several publications which include The New York Times, Examiner, just to mention a few. She produced several documentaries and podcasts on a range of topics, including music, culture, and politics. Tindall was an educator, she taught journalism at Stanford and music at the University of California, Berkeley and Mills College. She was also a frequent speaker at conferences and events, sharing her insights on music and the arts.
