32. December chats - medication, rejections and whether art is a way of life
Things Musicians Don't Talk About
English - December 16, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBPerforming Arts Arts music interviews music industry rebecca toal hattie butterworth music journalism mental health mental illness social change classical music Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
TMDTA hosts Rebecca Toal and Hattie Butterworth discuss their experiences taking psychiatric medication following Dr Alex George's PostYourPill campaign. They talk about the stigma and image around being someone with a mental illness within the classical music world and how important campaigns like this are for normalising people's experiences.
They also talk over the Royal Opera House's recent merchandise, featuring Margot Fonteyn's statement of the all-consuming nature of art as a way of life. We discuss whether or not we agree and also move onto talk about rejection, Rebecca's recent auditions and how traumatising rejection from the National Youth Orchestra was for Hattie!
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