Ask any musician who regularly travels for a living, and you are bound to hear some amazing, often hilarious, occasionally nerve-racking tales from the road. Here are a few of mine.


A musician's strange but true tales from the road

The show portrays classical musicians' lives as being full of sex, booze, and bad decisions. While I was initially taken aback by the show's insinuation that all professional musicians live this amorous lifestyle, I later realized that this is a Web show. No one would pay too much attention to the normal lives of most classical musicians, and these writers knew that.


Amazon's "Mozart in the Jungle": If ONLY real musicians' lives were this wild

"I would give anything to do what you do." I frequently hear that from audience members after my piano concerts, and I immediately think to myself, would they really want to subject themselves to the daily life of a concert pianist? If they knew what it actually takes to build and sustain an active concert career, they might reconsider!


Andrew Staupe

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