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

From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to the pits of "Les Misérables" and "Miss Saigon", Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music and on Broadway. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle", Tindall exposes the scandalous rock-and-roll lifestyles of the musicians and conductors and "spares almost no one in her tale of indulgence and career advancement" (Houston Chronicle).

Traveling around the globe, from performances in Vienna's Staatoper to Rio's Teatro Colón and New York City, "Mozart in the Jungle" is the first true, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on backstage and in the Broadway pit.

"A candid and unstinting book at the vicissitudes of the life of a freelance musician in New York. Those in the field know what a hard life it is, highly competitive and a constant scramble with no job security or health insurance; now, thanks to Mr. Tindall's book, it's out there for everyone to see" (New York Times).

"A scathing, eye-opening look at life in the orchestra pits" (Boston Herald)

"A cautionary tale from the trenches ... An unsparing glimpse into that world of small triumphes, easy frustrations, and surprising excess, dispensing dirty little secrets usually reserved for late-night bar talk and backstage gossip" (Newsday).

CONTENIDO:

Prelude

First Movement: Appassionata Sonata
1. The Magic Flute
2. Cunning Little Vixen
3. The Prodigy
4. New World Symphony
5. Apollo's Flophouse
6. Elixir of Love
7. The Rite of Spring
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream
9. The Damnation of Faust

Second Movement: Rhapsody in Blue
10. West Side Story
11. Mozart in the Jungle
12. Twilight of the Gods
13. Danse Macabre
14. Unfinished Symphony
15. The Pits
16. Beggar's Opera
17. The Age of Anxiety

Third Movement: Symphonic Metamorphoses
18. Airlift from Saigon
19. Smoke and Mirrors
20. Les Miserables
21. The Medieval Baebe
22. Music of the Heart

Encore: The Last Ascending

Acknowledgements
Notes
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