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Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
Atlantic Monthly Press
June 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0871138905
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with
the orchestras of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, oboist
Blair Tindall has been playing classical music
professionally for twenty-five years. She's also lived the
secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth, trading
sex and drugs for low-paying gigs and the promise of
winning a rare symphony position or a lucrative solo
recording contract. In Mozart in the Jungle, Tindall
describes her graduation from the North Carolina School of
the Arts to the backbiting New York classical music scene,
a world where Tindall and her fellow classical musicians
often play drunk, high, or hopelessly hung-over, live in
decrepit apartments, and perform in hazardous conditions.
(In the cramped confines of a Broadway pit, the decibel
level of one instrument is equal to the sound of a chain
saw.) Mozart in the Jungle offers a stark contrast between
the rarefied experiences of overpaid classical musician
superstars and those of the working-class musicians. For
lovers of classical music, Mozart in the Jungle is the
first true, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on
backstage and in the Broadway pit.
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