Blair Alston Mercer Tindall was an American oboist, performer, producer, speaker, and journalist.
14 Facts About Blair Tindall
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Blair Tindall started playing the piano at an early age and switched to oboe when joining the junior high school band; because of her surname's place in alphabetical order, she was the last person able to choose an instrument, and the only one available was the oboe.
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Blair Tindall completed high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts, received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, and a masters in communication from Stanford University, which she attended on a full tuition fellowship.
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Blair Tindall spent 23 years as a professional musician in New York City, playing with such groups as the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St Luke's, presenting a critically acclaimed solo debut at Carnegie Recital Hall, and earning a jazz Grammy nomination.
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Blair Tindall performed on many film soundtracks, including those of the movies Malcolm X, for which she was lauded in CD Review Magazine, Crooklyn, and Twilight.
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Blair Tindall has performed with Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts at the Blue Note Jazz Club.
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Blair Tindall taught journalism at Stanford and music at the University of California, Berkeley and Mills College.
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Blair Tindall has received residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation.
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Blair Tindall went on to write for The New York Times, Agence France-Presse, the Los Angeles Times, Sierra, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the International Herald Tribune.
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Blair Tindall's book was lauded by musicologist Richard Taruskin in The New Republic as "the smartest take on [the classical music] situation".
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Blair Tindall married science educator Bill Nye on February 3,2006.
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Blair Tindall acknowledged killing his plants but denied being a threat to him.
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Blair Tindall later started a relationship with photographer Chris Sattlberger, and they were engaged at the time of her death.
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Blair Tindall died in Los Angeles on April 12,2023, at the age of 63.