January 14, 2023Actor Cate Blanchett and writer/director Todd Field talk to Michael Beek about creating their riveting psychological drama set against the…
January 11, 2023The dialogue in “Tár,” Todd Field’s movie about a high-profile classical-music conductor, rings true at every turn...
December 29, 2022"'The War on Music' is a stellar work of great scholarship and polemical worth...
October 10, 2022I had the pleasure of being a consultant for the film Tár, about the fictional...
September 22, 2022The Yale Symphony Orchestra, which I directed from 1968–75, has made available a nine-page gallery with programs, letters, photos, and…
September 6, 2022If the most successful fake-medieval epics look like this: why does every new #WagnerRing look like this? Let's try something…
September 2, 2022Interview and book review from Liner Notes, Issue 2, 2022, including: For five decades, John Mauceri has had an extraordinary…
September 2, 2022This is John's 90-minute presentation at Yale of his recent book, The War on Music...- May 24, 2022...from 2021, when Maestros and Their Music was published in paperback...
March 26, 2022In 1958, two Broadway hits, West Side Story and The Music Man, had a fateful showdown, and only one came…
