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# Mozart in the Jungle

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## Customer Reviews

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    The TV series is a jazz riff on the book
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2019*

I got the book because I had been hugely enjoying the TV series based on it on Amazon Prime; I was astonished at how very different the two versions were.  The series is a jazz riff on the book's theme, playing for comedy, while the book is a sober account of the development and life of a musician, une vie boheme with sex and drugs (and the ingénue is TB-free) that is more fun in the opera than in real life. It begins with a government decision to add a culture war to the Cold War by promoting (and funding) the arts.  With that substantial encouragement, arts schools opened and students flocked to them to become artists for a public very much less interested in their art than the government had been.  Instead of finding decent positions to practice their art with a decent return on their investment, they became freelancers in a crowded field (and becoming more crowded every decade).  Classical musicians in the U.S. live a precarious existence, getting gigs wherever they can for whatever is being paid; most lack health insurance and any savings toward retirement: they are happy to make it to the end of each month without owing more money than they had at its beginning.  Having been a freelance writer/editor myself for ten years, I know what that can be like: the same arts funding that generated musicians cranked out a lot of marginally employable PhDs in literature at the same time.  In academia, the snobbish joke about music majors is that they are as interested in education as are jocks, and vocalists even less so. Blair Tindall confirms that in her account:  seeking a real college degree and taking a cram course for admission, she could not pass a practice math exam because she had no idea of what "x" meant.  Perhaps the brightest moment of the book was of her paying $500 for a personal evaluation that revealed more potential talents than just the oboe.  Accepted at Stanford with a scholarship in her thirties, she emerged with a fluid and muscular prose to which many an English major may only aspire. She was surprised that real college professors never allowed their office doors to be closed while talking with students; closed doors and sexual "instruction" was the norm at her musical arts high school. Her book is a joy to read, even if it has more sobering thoughts than laughs.  The television series has the laughs and excellent performances.  It is worth watching as well: it is the champagne froth of this profound book.

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    More thought-provoking than the video series
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2016*

Another example of watching something produced by Amazon.com and wondering about the original work AND liking the original work better! The video series Mozart in the Jungle is entertaining mind fluff. Just fun stuff with attractive and interesting characters and mostly engaging story arcs. Tindall's book is much more than that. She narrates her way through her years in the classical music biz in a very engaging manner, exposing her own shortcomings in the process. As a fun-to-read confessional, it would get 4 stars. But I give it the 5th star because Tindall puts her experience in perspective. It's not just a la-dah-dada-dee tale of her trials and tribulations in the oboe biz. The book also slips into researched commentary that uses her own story as a means of making larger points about the classical music business in this country. Very strongly recommended.

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    Great book. I bought it because I love the ...
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2016*

Great book. I bought it because I love the series, but the book is very different -- not in a bad way. Both are worth the time. If you are a fan of the show, though, I'll warn you that there are plenty of times during the book when you cannot even begin to understand how a comedy series -- well, more of a dramedy -- came from this book. There is some sensitive subject matter that may be hard to read, and is far from the light, comedic tone of the show. But, once you get past that, and separate the book from the show, this is an amazing read, especially for people with a background in classical music.

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