Blair Alston Mercer Tyndall was born on February 2, 1960 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His father, George, was a noted historian who taught at the University of North Carolina, and his mother, Carliss Blossom (McGarity) Tyndale, had a master’s degree. She completed her degree and assisted her husband in his studies.
Her parents had her study the piano when she was young, but she was not very keen on the instrument. had each student choose an instrument in alphabetical order, she recalled in the book.
“By the time he got to Tyndale, my options had narrowed down to two unfamiliar instruments, the oboe and the bassoon,” she wrote. She chose the oboe.
As she became more proficient with the instrument, she realized its advantages.
“The composer wrote a juicy solo for the oboe that left the band’s director ecstatic,” she wrote, and she was excused from classes for various band competitions and tours.
After graduating from high school at the School of the Arts in 1978, Tyndale received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. She has performed with her orchestra in “Miss Her Saigon” and “Les Miserables”, Orpheus and Music with the Amici Ensemble, All She Oboe Trio, Her Oboe Fusion, and various orchestras. bottom. In 1991, at Manhattan’s Weill Recital Hall, she performed “a clever, stylistically diverse debut program”, as Allan Cosine put it in her review for The Times.
In 1999, Tyndale began to become disillusioned with life as a musician and moved to the West Coast after receiving a journalism fellowship at Stanford University. She earned her master’s degree in journalism there and has worked for several West Coast newspapers, including Contra Her Costa Her Times and San Francisco Her Examiner.
