

Lyons tweeted that the oboe playing looked fake. Tindall sparred online with Margaret Lyons, a television columnist from New York magazine, after Ms. Journalists critical of the show have also caused her tsoris. Tindall said in a telephone interview that she was stressed at the time and never intended to harm Mr. Nye filed a restraining order against her, claiming he caught her trying to poison his rose garden while clad in black clothes and a hat. (The megachurch pastor Rick Warren had performed the ceremony the year earlier in front of 400 people at an entertainment conference.) Not long after, Mr. In 2007, her monthslong marriage to Bill Nye, better known as the Science Guy, was declared invalid. Hailey’s character, lives in Los Angeles and has had something of a colorful life outside the symphony hall. “She took me to task for all the swearing,” he said, laughing. Weitz grew up in New York City and heard from Orin O’Brien, a family friend who in 1966 was the first woman to become a member of the New York Philharmonic. “But the comment I hear from non-oboists is that they are happy with her work.” “A lot of the time they say she needs more of a roundness in the pursing of her lips,” Ms.

(With a few exceptions for credits and selected scenes, the music is from existing recordings that have been licensed.) And, as one might expect, oboe players are the most nitpicky about the actress’s performance. “I came here and found an oboe community that is really a community,” she said. Cole, who has played in Broadway shows and numerous orchestras, said her primary concern was that the producers would portray her New York peers as petty and backbiting.

Kirke for her role as Hailey Rutledge, the New York City comer with dreams of joining a world-class orchestra. Marilyn Cole, a freelance oboist, was hired to train Ms. “Blair’s book was a moment when the sheen on classical music was lifted.” “Our show is not an adaptation, but the book is the touchstone for this whole thing,” he said in a telephone interview. And drug use and casual sex were prevalent. AIDS had a sweeping impact on the Broadway community in that era. Jason Schwartzman, one of the show’s producers, said it wasn’t trying to recreate New York in the 1980s, nor were they aiming for a documentary about Ms. John, a Canadian-born violinist who has played with many of the major symphony orchestras. “I’ve heard a lot of colleagues describe it as a guilty pleasure,” said Lara St. Gustavo Dudamel, the wunderkind Venezuelan conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, makes an appearance as a backstage handler. The second season is studded with classical-world celebrity cameos, including musicians like Joshua Bell and Lang Lang, and the Grammy-winning pianist Emanuel Ax, who played the interactive video game “Dance Dance Revolution” at a dive bar during one episode. The producers have hired New York musicians as on-screen extras, making for a fun peer-spotting exercise. García Bernal and the 20-something oboist played by Lola Kirke, the sister of Jemima Kirke from “Girls.” It doesn’t hurt that Bernadette Peters, a Broadway favorite, also stars, as the orchestra’s manager. Musicians who have watched “Mozart in the Jungle” say it is slowly finding an audience here among the classical-music crowd, who have been drawn to the affable Mr. They arrived at something in between: a whimsical drama exploring a competitive world.

Producers agonized over whether the show would reflect the author’s singular experience or embrace a more contemporary New York sensibility.
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“Mozart in the Jungle, Sex, Drugs and Classical Music,” the 2005 memoir written by Blair Tindall on which the TV show is based.
