Ransom Wilson is the conducting coach. If he's not there, there is always someone on set and they have additional private lessons. Malcolm, as a result of learning to conduct, has been cast as Richard Strauss in another film.

It exists. It's called Poisson Rouge.

Bingo. You hit the nail on the head. I'm a musician involved with the show and Rodrigo and Thomas both did so well in person that the orchestra (which is mostly real musicians) wanted to finish the piece with each of them. The orchestra does play aloud but hears the pre-recorded audio, and I do think it's an editing…

People do hook up in real life…

She's almost 70 — I think she might be backing off from singing before she *has* to.

Schenkarian analysis is for composers and theory majors, not for performance majors. We've got real-person issues to learn about. Thanks for the advice from Hoople, though.

Well, honey, he didn't write it. He wrote a set of variations on the popular English lullaby.

Sweetheart, since you're so so so informed about music surely you know that's an OBOE, not a clarinet. And you do know this is not a documentary, yes?

It's based on the book of the same name.

Lori is a Juilliard grad; far more than a "decent" cellist.

You're absolutely right, I was being general. I was just pointing out that it's most definitely not the neighborhood of Fishtown in Philly, which some people seem to think. I was guessing that they just saw a road sign for Fishkill, which is farther north, and made it into Fishtown ;-)

They were actually in Fishkill, NY. I doubt they knew about the PA hood.

You're right, I forgot about the pilot :-)

No, same show runner for all 10 episodes.

Very good point. It's Amazon Prime.

Hailey is based on the author of "Mozart in the Jungle," a memoir book.

The show has about 20 musical consultants.

Generally a 20 minute break after 75 minutes.

Magic Flute opera by Mozart, Queen of the Night aria.

It's a library archivist who's noticing the score has suddenly been finished, in Mozart's style.