John Mauceri is a leading performer of music banned by the Third Reich and especially music of Hollywood's emigre composers.
22 Facts About John Mauceri
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John Mauceri's teachers included William G Waite, Claude V Palisca, Beekman Cannon, Leon Plantinga, and Robert Bailey in musicology; Mel Powell, Donald Martino, Allen Forte and Peter Sculthorpe in theory and composition; Donald Currier in piano; and Gustav Meier in conducting.
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John Mauceri is credited for building the Yale Symphony Orchestra into one of the most respected student orchestras in the world.
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John Mauceri produced and conducted the YSO for the European premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass in Vienna, the world premiere of Charles Ives's Three Places in New England in its original, large orchestra version, as well as the world premiere of the critical edition of Ives's Orchestral Set No 2.
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In 1973, John Mauceri made both his professional orchestral debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and his operatic debut conducting Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street at the Wolf Trap Festival.
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John Mauceri made his Broadway debut on March 10,1974, as music director of Hal Prince's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide which had begun as a limited run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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John Mauceri subsequently served as music director for the "Opera House" version of Candide that premiered at the New York City Opera in 1982.
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John Mauceri was able to make use of virtually all the music Bernstein had composed for various versions of Candide between 1956 and 1971.
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John Mauceri, representing the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, hired George Abbott, George Balanchine and found the original orchestrator, Hans Spialek, to restore the score.
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John Mauceri led the charge in reassessing the American works of Kurt Weill, which had been generally viewed as inferior to his German works.
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John Mauceri's recording of Street Scene released in 1991, is the first complete recording of any American theater work of Kurt Weill.
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John Mauceri brought Street Scene for its country premieres in Portugal, and Italy.
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In 2001, John Mauceri led the world premiere recording of Weill's early operatic success, Der Protagonist from 1926 which was broadcast on German radio in a concert performance in the Berliner Philharmonie.
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At Washington Opera and La Scala, John Mauceri had the privilege of conducting the American and European premieres of Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place in 1984.
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In 1972 John Mauceri was invited to be Bernstein's assistant for a new production of Carmen at the Met.
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John Mauceri is the first American ever to have held the post of music director of an opera house in either Great Britain or Italy.
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John Mauceri has spoken about and written numerous articles expounding his fidelity to the composer's intent and the necessity of fully understanding it in performance.
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John Mauceri was appointed chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts by President Erskine Bowles on May 2,2006.
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John Mauceri implemented a two-semester calendar and conceived and implemented the school's first full summer school.
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John Mauceri left the faculty of Yale in 1982 as Associate Professor, and in 1985 was awarded Yale's first Arts Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement.
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John Mauceri returned to his alma mater in 2001 to teach a course in 20th century aesthetic history and the effects of World War II on current perceptions of classical music.
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John Mauceri is one of four former university chancellors named in the lawsuit.