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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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UNCSA to present Korngold’s “Much Ado About Nothing” (1920)

Posted January 30th, 2012

Uncsa bw UNCSA will be presenting the American premiere of Korngold’s Much Ado About Nothing (1920) in a fully staged production this spring.

March 29-31 (Thursday-Saturday) & April 5-7 (Thursday-Saturday)

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Incidental Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Directed by Gerald Freedman / Musical Direction by John Mauceri / Featuring members of Studio 4

Shakespeare’s most spirited and sophisticated battle of the sexes is set to the American premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s 1920 incidental score, originally commissioned for the Vienna Burgtheater in 1918, performed by members of the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra.

March 29-31 & April 5-7 at 8 p.m.

March 31 & April 7 at 2 p.m.

de Mille Theatre

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

SPECIAL EVENT PRICING (Friday and Saturday nights): $25 adults / $20 students & seniors

For more information and to purchase tickets see the UNCSA performance calendar

Decca re‑issues “Das Wunder der Heliane”

Posted January 30th, 2012

Das wunder der heliane re issue Decca has just re-released Das Wunder der Heliane by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. This unique recording has won Germany’s prestigious ECHO Prize, its most important recording award. Considered by Korngold to be his masterpiece and recorded in Berlin, the cast includes Anna Tomowa-Sintow, René Pape and Nicolai Gedda.

The album will be released March 13, 2012.

Pre‑order your copy on Amazon.com

The Score with Edmund Stone

Posted December 11th, 2011

Edmund Stone and John Mauceri discuss the role of the musical score in film including it’s history, style and cultural influence. From AllClassical.org and TheScore.org.

Visit the Media|Audio section for full interview.

John Mauceri to address Yale’s class of ‘67

Posted December 5th, 2011

On Friday, 1 June, 2012, John Mauceri will be addressing Yale’s class of 1967, celebrating their 45th reunion.

John graduated cum laude in Music Theory and Composition, May 1967 from the Yale School of music. John graduated winning the Wrexham Prize for highest musical achievement and received the Francis Vernan Prize for composition.