Review
"'The most candid and unsparing account of orchestral life ever to see print... Blair Tindall tells it how it is - the sex, the drugs, the influence racketeers' Norman Lebrecht * 'Mozart in the Jungle's scandalous peek behind the facade of classical music is bound to cause shock waves' Michael Sheldon, Daily Telegraph * 'An explosive personal memoir... Tindall's book is an 11th-hour wake-up call to orchestras to clean up their act before it's too late' Evening Standard"
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Book Description
By age 16, the author of this piquant memoir was dealing marijuana, bedding her instructors at a performing arts high school and studying the oboe. Later, her blossoming career as a freelance musician in New York introduced her to a classical music demimonde of cocaine parties and group sex that had her wondering why she 'got hired for so many of my gigs in bed'. "Mozart in the Jungle" is a biting critique of the conservatories that produce thousands of graduates each year to pursue a handful of jobs, the superstar conductors and soloists who lord it over orchestral peons and a fine arts establishment depicted as bloated and corrupt.
