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  • Mozart in the Jungle

  • Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
  • By: Blair Tindall
  • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
  • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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By: Blair Tindall
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Summary

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 musician, from 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, trading 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. These are working-class musicians who schlep across the city between low-paying gigs, without health-care benefits or retirement plans--a stark contrast to the rarefied experiences of overpaid classical musician superstars.

An incisive, no-holds-barred account, Mozart in the Jungle is the first true, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on backstage and in the Broadway pit.

©2005 Blair Tindall (P)2015 Audible Inc.

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Pronounce Classical terms Correctly!

The narrator DOES NOT sound like a classical musician in character voice and the characterisation by the narrator is that of a steamy mindless romance novel - if you are going to have a believable read please learn the correct pronunciation of classical terms -i had to turn it off when i sleep at night - perky and annoying pardon my diction i have always written like a ts eliot and cummings under hunter s .. i hated her voice so much i do not want this book - sorry do not believe the actor has ever listened to Mahler ... booo i was really looking forward to this book too ...

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