New York Times
Among the 18 American orchestras with 52-week contracts, at least 7 pay their music directors more than $1 million, and 3 pay their managers more than $700,000.

New York Times
Are women conductors hitting a glass ceiling? Or preparing to break into the top-tier orchestras?

New York Times
Prescription heart medication also calms stage fright.

New York Times
The last night of live music on Broadway, on the eve of the 2003 musicians' strike.

New York Times
American musicians relax at a Korean bathhouse in Tokyo.

New York Times
The cost of commissioning a work of music, from one-minute solo to full-length opera.

Sierra
Ordinary Americans affected by environmental policies of the Bush administration

Sierra
A great race between the northeast's high-speed rail and air shuttles.

Sierra
The edge of land and sea is a riot of life, where humans can wreck what crashing waves cannot in the tidepools that inspired John Steinbeck's greatest work.

Yoga Journal
A musician confronts her stage fright the natural way...with absolute terror!

Palo Alto Weekly
Silicon Valley locals recall their long, strange trip through the '60s

San Francisco Examiner
What crawls into 24-hour Fitness Gym all night long?

Blair Tindall
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PRAISE FOR MOZART IN THE JUNGLE

**"Blair Tindall blows the lid off the world of classical music in this book that transcends the genre of memoir. While an intensely personal and revealing story, Mozart in the Jungle is also fine investigative journalism, with an abiding sense of history. It's a remarkable multi-layered work of non-fiction. She entered the sacred temple of classical music--for so long
shrouded in mystery, off-limits to critical examination--emerged with this tale of a non-profit "industry" bent on self destruction, conductors feeding at the trough of excess, both monetary and sexual. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the arts in America."
--Dale Maharidge, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "And Their Children After Them."

LINKS TO FAVORITE BOOKS:

**"America: A Narrative History," by George Brown Tindall

**"How Does Olive Oil Lose Its Virginity," by Bruce Tindall

**"The Final Solution," by Michael Chabon

**"Song of Names," by Norman Lebrecht

**"Madeleine is Sleeping," by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (2005 National Book Award nominee!)

**"Field Notes: The Grace of the Canyon Wren," by Barry Lopez

"The Last Girls," by Lee Smith

**"Ballad of the Whiskey Robber," by Julian Rubinstein

**"Banishing Verona," by Margot Livesey

**"All These Girls," by Ellen Slezak

**"Love in the Asylum," by Lisa Carey

**"Palladio," by Jonathan Dee

**"The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance," by Benjamin Anastas

**"Off Keck Road," by Mona Simpson

**"South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900," by George Brown Tindall (50th anniversary reissue)

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"Mozart in the Jungle is funny, startling, heartbreaking, informative, and utterly absorbing. Blair Tindall writes like an angel." --Lee Smith, author, "The Last Girls"

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Blair Tindall

"Mozart in the Jungle is funny, startling, heartbreaking, informative, and utterly absorbing. Blair Tindall writes like an angel."
--Lee Smith, author, "The Last Girls"