Michael Cooper
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February 18, 2018

Hear How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Became a New-Music Showcase

Michael Cooper
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February 18, 2018

Hear How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Became a New-Music Showcase

Michael Cooper
|
February 18, 2018

Hear How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Became a New-Music Showcase

At a moment when living composers — especially women — struggle to get their works performed, few would have predicted that a half-hour TV show would emerge as a key showcase for their work. But “Mozart in the Jungle,” the daffy Amazon comedy whose fourth season began streaming on Friday, has become an unlikely destination to hear new music.

Here is a taste of some of the recent pieces featured on the show, which is set in a fanciful version of the New York classical music world and stars Gael García Bernal, Bernadette Peters, Malcolm McDowell and Lola Kirke. The works were performed on Tuesday at National Sawdust, the striking performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which itself has a cameo in the season.

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