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Title: An Uncomfortable Read for all the Wrong Reasons
Review: This book has many redeeming moments where Ms. Tindall lets her intellect and journalistic talents process the inequities of the classical music world. What's disturbing is how viciously she turns on her friends, colleagues, neighbors and teachers. Mozart in the Jungle would have been a more powerful book had it not been punctuated with so much personal cruelty towards the supporting cast to her story, That vitriol adds little to the purpose of her expose, or the autobiographical thread of the work. Thus the book swings from muckraking and sometimes funny details about the salaries, egos and libidos of classical music's gentry, to petty barbs, self-righteous pronouncements and catty personal details about the free-lance classical music community that struggles to survive, and make an art form possible. We hope that having dealt with her personal vendettas, that Tindell's next effort is more representative of her talents.
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