Mozart in the Jungle : Sex, drugs and classical music
Author(s): Blair Tindall
Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off the secret world of classical music, exposing a musical demi-monde where alcohol and drugs are ubiquitous, where musicians perform high or hungover and where it's standard to trade sex for work. As Tindall admits: 'I got hired for most of my gigs in bed'.
Mozart in the Jungle is the first book to tell the truth about the conservatories that produce thousands of graduates a year for a handful of jobs, the superstar conductors and soloists who lord it over orchestral peons, and a fine arts establishment that is as bloated as it is self-destructive.
First published 2005.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Atlantic Books, Limited
- : Atlantic Books
- : 01 March 2006
- : ---length:- '19.8'width:- '12.9'units:- Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Blair Tindall
- : BC
- : 0
- : English
- : 788.52092
- : very good
- : 336