In 1967, Pearl Bailey appeared in an all-Black Hello, Dolly! It was a sensation, smashing preconceptions, showcasing civil rights, and announcing a new era on Broadway.

"Classical Music Still Plays in the Theater of War" — Opinion piece for The New York Times, published October 30, 2022.

Symphony Magazine

Major Orchestra Librarians' Association. Keynote Speech, 2005 MOLA Conference.

Symphony Magazine

The New York Times

Kurt Weill Newsletter. John reviews a new release of excerpts from Street Scene. Page 12.

Written for the Washington National Opera's production of Porgy and Bess.

Speech delivered at “Best of Our State” weekend at the Grove Park Inn Resort, Asheville, NC.

Delivered at the American Musicological Society in Houston, Texas, December 2003. Never before published.

Gramophone magazine published their list of 250 greatest recordings of all time. John Mauceri's recording of Erich Korngold's Between Two Worlds. See Discography for more info on the recording.

Cinema was never silent. Music was always a part of the performance tradition and, indeed, the success of the medium, whether that was music played on an upright piano, a theatre organ or by a symphony orchestra.

The installation speech of Chancellor John Mauceri.

The West Side Story story is a complicated one, and the new Broadway production has a lot of history to reckon with