32 stories from John Mauceri
Terry Barfoot of MusicWeb International reviews the release of The Cradle Will Rock and discusses the contributions the work has made to American music theatre. [Marc Blitzstein's] artist…
The San Francisco Classical Voice reviews the first complete recording of The Cradle Will Rock. Review by Jason Victor Serinus. Merely 84 years after the nearly-aborted world premiere of …
It's out! The first complete recording of Marc Blitzstein's 1937 Broadway opera, The Cradle Will Rock"with Blitzstein's original orchestration. The 2-CD set recorded last summer at …
It's out! The first complete recording of Marc Blitzstein's 1937 Broadway opera, The Cradle Will Rock"with Blitzstein's original orchestration. The 2-CD set recorded last summer at …
www.theaterjones.com By Cathy Ritchie published Wednesday, March 14, 2018 As a total non-musician, I always find the blending of orchestra-created sounds in a concert to be somehow magical, …
Is the ï¬gure on the podium really a musician? What, exactly, constitutes the art of conducting? Leon Botstein reviews 'Maestros and Their Music' by John Mauceri. From the Wall Street Jo…
From Richard S. Ginell’s interview of John for San Francisco Classical Voice. John Mauceri has been a busy Renaissance man of the podium ever since the early 1970s when he became Le…
Read John’s full text from his three part story The Met @ 50. Originally posted in three parts on HuffingtonPost.com collected here in it’s entirety. Download The Met @ 50 as a P…
The new house is no longer the new house. It is the Metropolitan Opera House and the old house is simply a glorious memory of my youth. And while we can rejoice in the achievement of the fif…
I was not present for the opening of Philharmonic Hall in 1962"I was seventeen"but I did attend performances during its first season. (The Met performed there, it should be said, with the Am…
Fifty years ago, on September 16, 1966, 8:00 pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time, a brand new Metropolitan Opera House opened with the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra, a 3-act epic op…
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts production of Swan Lake. Presented as part of a Dance Fantasies program in 2012.
On April 21, 2016, John Mauceri was granted the 2015 Ditson Conductor’s Award by Columbia University. The Ditson Fund was established at Columbia University in 1940, with a bequest …
The American premiere of the full score of Much Ado About Nothing by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The production features members of the senior class (2014) in Drama, supported by students…
John is pleased to share four unreleased tracks from Ballets Russes performed by the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2013 on the celebration of the 100th annivers…
Today we learned of the death of Dick Horowitz at the age of 91. You perhaps never heard of him. If you went to the Metropolitan Opera or listened to its broadcasts any time from 1946 until …
From Opera News: Elfman is rightfully celebrated for his epic, gleefully ghoulish symphonic soundscapes that manage to be creepy, exhilarating, apocalyptic, sweet, and hilarious all at the s…
Carousel, Callas, Czerny playing Beethoven … conductor John Mauceri shares the music and people that inspire him in an interview with TheGuardian.com Classical Music section Facing the Mus…
Written in Skin came to Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and was quickly crowned the highlight of the festival as well as the greatest new opera in 20 years. On the other hand,�…
Within the past month we have read with sadness of the deaths of four important artists who seemingly have little in common: composer and author Mary Rodgers Guettel, internationally famous …
Music Conservatory of Westchester, a not-for-profit music school in White Plains, NY, honored Tony winner Barbara Cook and conductor John Mauceri on Monday, June 23 with …
On Friday morning, April 25, 2014, World War II was everywhere to be found in the arts section of our essential paper of record, The New York Times. A revived revival of Cabaret with old chu…
From a PBS gala John Mauceri music directed in 1987. John was 41.
John Mauceri received his third regional Emmy at the 28th Annual Midsouth Emmy awards on January 26 for producing (and music directing) Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, featu…
Carolina Business Review host Chris Williams discusses with then Chancellor John Mauceri about the importance of creative problem solving and how the University of North Carolina School of t…