Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, And Classical Music - Brossura

Tindall, Blair

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802142532 ISBN 13: 9780802142535

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 2006

Riassunto

A journalist explores the backstage lives of classical musicians, uncovering evidence of substance abuse on and off-stage, as well as the privations of professional orchestra musicians who suffer from low salaries and difficult work environments. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

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.

Product Description:

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 musicianfrom 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."

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0802142532
• ISBN 13: 9780802142535
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 318