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Mozart in the Jungle

Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
Mar 10, 2018ultraleap rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I really don't understand the critics reviews. Rather than putting their judgement forward, they should see this as a personal and historic (well beyond the Amazon series) report of the lives of musicians, or at least some of them, around New York. I found the description of her choices as a teenager, regarding music and the rest, interesting. Also her description of the classical music economics is telling of the dynamics that have been at work in the last 80 years. Finally, drug use is not surprising, if we thought that only stock brokers were addicted to cocaine in the 80s, probably that's incorrect. While this book is not a journalism masterpiece, it offers a perspective that taken with a grain of salt is interesting. I may not agree with her choices, yet it projects me into environments and periods that I enjoyed discovering. And maybe learn from the past to imagine the future.