Blair Tindall, the concert oboist whose 2005 memoir Mozart In The Jungle was adapted into a hit 2014 comedy-drama series on Amazon Prime, died of heart disease in Los Angeles on April 12. She was 63.

Forget "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll." How about "Sex, Drugs and Classical Music?" That surprising combination is indeed the subtitle of Blair Tindall's revelatory new memoir, "Mozart in the Jungle." ...

Blair Tindall, a 1978 high-school graduate of the UNC School of the Arts, who wrote a graphic 2005 memoir about her life as a student at the school in the 1970s, has died.

Journalist and oboist Blair Tindall joins Larry Mantle to talk about the surprising rock-and-roll lifestyles lived by many musicians and conductors inhabiting the insular world of classical music.