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Mozart in the Jungle - Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music

Inglese · Tascabile

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Informationen zum Autor Blair Tindall is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Sierra Magazine, and the San Francisco Examiner; her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal and Art & Antiques. The recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, Tindall holds an M.A. in journalism from Stanford University. She lives in Los Angeles, CA. Klappentext Professional oboist Tindall reveals the secret life of musicians, who trade sex and drugs for low-paying gigs and the promise of winning a rare symphony position or a lucrative solo recording contract, in this behind-the-scenes look at what goes on backstage and in the Broadway pit. 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 García 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, 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 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.

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Autori Blair Tindall, Tindall Blair
Editore Atlantic monthly press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 08.06.2006
 
EAN 9780802142535
ISBN 978-0-8021-4253-5
Pagine 318
Dimensioni 139 mm x 210 mm x 23 mm
Categorie Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte

USA, FICTION / Media Tie-In, Music Industry, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, EVENT / Summer

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