Mozart in the Jungle

Following in the mold of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gelsey Kirkland’s Dancing on My Grave, this insider portrait uncovers the concealed world of classical musicians. Blair Tindall—whose twenty-five-year career spans from a debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon—has performed with some of the genre’s most renowned names. In Mozart in the Jungle, she lays bare the scandalous rock-and-roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular realm of classical music.