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Chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. John Mauceri’s distinguished and extraordinary career has brought him not only to the world’s greatest opera companies and symphony orchestras, but also to the musical stages of Broadway and Hollywood, as well as the most prestigious halls of academia. Regarded as the world’s leading performer of the music of Hollywood’s émigré composers, he has taken the lead in the preservation and performance of many kinds of music and has supervised/conducted premieres by composers as diverse as Debussy, Stockhausen, Korngold, Bernstein, Hindemith, Elfman, Ives, and Shore. As an accomplished recording artist, John Mauceri has over 70 albums to his name, and is the recipient of Grammy, Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Edison, Cannes Classique, Billboard, two Diapasons d’Or, two Emmys, and four Deutsche Schallplatten Awards.

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Schedule Updated

Posted July 22nd, 2010

John’s schedule has been updated with new upcoming engagements.

John will be debuting in Spain at the Bilboa Opera as Musical Director of SUSANNAH in October. In November he will be making his debut in Denmark with The Danish National Orchestra conducting “Emigrés and Protégés” – The Hollywood Diaspora

In April UNCSA will be producing Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!. This all-school production will be directed by Gerald Freedman, based on the original production of Rouben Mamoulian, Musical Direction by John Mauceri, scenery and costumes restored by the School of Design & Production

See John Mauceri’s Schedule for more details.

Site Updates

Posted July 22nd, 2010

Biography, CV and Media|Photos have been updated.

Gramophone’s 250 Greatest Recordings of All Time

Posted July 15th, 2010

John Mauceri’s recording of Erich Korngold’s Between Two Worlds has been selected by Gramophone magazine as one of the 250 Greatest Recordings of All Time. Read the article in the Writings section and get more information on the recording in the Discography.

Underscoring Richard Wagner’s influence on film music

Posted June 25th, 2010

John Burlingame, Special reporter to the LA Times, discusses Richard Wagner’s influence upon film music. Burlingame sought John Mauceri’s knowledge of film music to uncover Wagner’s influence upon the genre.

Central to Wagner’s theory of dramatic storytelling was the leitmotif (although he appears to have disdained the term), in which a recurring musical theme would be associated with a person, place or idea. “This idea was adopted by every film composer who came to Hollywood to write dramatic underscore, starting with Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, right through to today,” Mauceri notes.

By Jon Burlingame, Special to the Los Angeles Times
June 17, 2010

Read the full article at L.A. Times.com