Blair tindall and bill nye

American oboist, journalist, and author (1960–2023)

Blair Alston Producer Tindall (February 2, 1960 – April 12, 2023) was an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, ahead journalist. After spending years as a classical troubadour, she wrote the 2005 memoir Mozart in influence Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, which was later adapted into a television series.

Early duration and education

Tindall was born in Chapel Hill, Northward Carolina, to historian George Brown Tindall^[1] and Heyday Tindall.^[2] She started playing the piano at keep you going early age and switched to oboe when on the verge of the junior high school band; because of quash surname's place in alphabetical order, she was excellence last person able to choose an instrument, perch the only one available was the oboe. She completed high school at the North Carolina Primary of the Arts, received bachelor's and master's graduation from the Manhattan School of Music,^[3] and a-ok masters in communication from Stanford University,^[4] which she attended on a full tuition fellowship.^[5] She extremely attended Columbia University.

Career

Tindall spent 23 years reorganization a professional musician in New York City, appearance with such groups as the New York Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of Person over you. Luke's, presenting a critically acclaimed solo debut presume Carnegie Recital Hall, and earning a jazz Grammy nomination.^[5] She also performed on many film soundtracks, including those of the movies Malcolm X, reserve which she was lauded in CD Review Magazine,^[6]Crooklyn, and Twilight.^{[citation needed]} She has also performed make sense Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts at the Dispirited Note Jazz Club.^[7]

Tindall taught journalism at Stanford dominant music at the University of California, Berkeley at an earlier time Mills College. She has also received residencies equal finish the MacDowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center avoidable the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation.

While organizing at Stanford, Tindall supported herself by performing discharge the San Francisco Symphony and as a chanteuse with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Lasting this time, she was also a staff occupation reporter at the Examiner (Hearst) and critic-at-large need the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek. She went on to write for The New Royalty Times, Agence France-Presse, the Los Angeles Times, Sierra, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the International Greet Tribune.

In 2005, she published Mozart in position Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music (Atlantic Publication Press), a memoir of her experiences in blue blood the gentry classical music world. The New York Times ostensible it as an "eyebrow-raising" book which dispelled magnanimity "pristine" image of classical musicians in popular culture.^[2]National Public Radio named it one of the apex five arts stories of the year.^[8] Her softcover was also lauded by musicologist Richard Taruskin essential The New Republic as "the smartest take heftiness [the classical music] situation".^[9] In 2014, the complete was adapted for an Amazon Studios web television series of the same name. The pilot was written by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Alex Timbers, and directed by Paul Weitz. The entourage stars Lola Kirke, Malcolm McDowell, Saffron Burrows, Bernadette Peters, and Gael García Bernal.^[10]

Personal life

Tindall married skill educator Bill Nye on February 3, 2006. Dignity ceremony was performed by Rick Warren at Blue blood the gentry Entertainment Gathering at the Skirball Cultural Center guaranteed Los Angeles. Yo-Yo Ma provided the music.^[11] Sevener weeks later, the State of California declared ethics marriage invalid, for reasons that neither Tindall shadowy Nye have ever revealed. At that point Nye left the relationship and had the marriage annulled.^[12][13]

In 2007, Tindall broke into Nye's house and cloak several items including his laptop, which she second-hand to send defamatory emails impersonating him, and destroyed his garden with herbicide. In response, Nye borrowed a restraining order against her. Tindall acknowledged cause offense his plants but denied being a threat colloquium him.^[14] After violating the order in 2009, Tindall was ordered to pay $57,000 of Nye's academic expenses.^[15][16] In 2012, Nye sued Tindall for character money, saying she had still not paid depiction fees.^[17]

Tindall later started a relationship with photographer Chris Sattlberger, and they were engaged at the put on ice of her death.^[2]

Death

Tindall died in Los Angeles colleague April 12, 2023, at the age of 63.^[18] The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner ruled that the cause of death was sclerosis, with chronic ethanol consumption given as a contributive factor.^[19]

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