Mozart in the Jungle - Sex, Drugs and Classical Music (Tindall Blair)(Paperback)

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain s "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland s "Dancing on My Grave," "Mozart in the Jungle" delves into the lives of the musicians and conductors who inhabit the insular world of classical music. In a book that inspired the Amazon Original series starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Malcolm McDowell, oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musicianfrom the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical music scene, where musicians trade sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in orchestras across the city. Tindall and her fellow journeymen musicians often play drunk, high, or hopelessly hungover, live in decrepit apartments, and perform in hazardous conditions working-class musicians who schlep across the city between
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