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87-508: John Mauceri led the orchestra from its founding in 1990 until he stepped down after the 2006 Hollywood Bowl season. During this time, his titles included Conductor, Principal Conductor, and finally, Director. He now holds the title of Founding Director. In March 2008, Thomas Wilkins was named as the Principal Guest Conductor of the orchestra for a two-year contract that would begin in the summer of 2008. The contract

174-551: A Grammy for "Best Opera Recording". In 1988, as Music Director of Scottish Opera , Mauceri initiated a third version based on a reading of Voltaire adapted by John Wells and directed by Jonathan Miller . Mauceri was able to make use of virtually all the music Bernstein had composed for various versions of Candide between 1956 and 1971. This final version had its world premiere at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow , with Bernstein in attendance, and broadcast on BBC television. It

261-535: A Young Musicians Foundation Award, and even his own day, "John Mauceri Day", by the state of California. Mauceri was appointed chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts by President Erskine Bowles on May 2, 2006. During his seven-year tenure he lobbied and secured to have "University" added to the school's name to distinguish it from the growing number of arts magnet high schools and to affirm

348-555: A century ago, he has appeared with most of the world's great orchestras, guest-conducted at the premiere opera houses, produced and musically supervised Tony and Olivier Award -winning Broadway musicals, and served as university faculty and administrator. Through his varied career, he has taken the lead in the preservation and performance of many genres of music and supervised and conducted important premieres by composers as diverse as Debussy , Stockhausen , Korngold , Hindemith , Bernstein , Sibelius , Ives , Elfman and Shore . He

435-463: A collection of folk songs, lullabies, and spirituals (with accompanying live concert performances) with Christian McBride and Grover Washington Jr. (with whom she had performed in Carnegie Hall the previous year); and Angels' Glory, a Christmas album with guitarist Christopher Parkening , a frequent collaborator. In 1997 came the release of the albums Mozart Opera Arias and Grace ,

522-725: A collection of sacred songs. In October 1998, she joined jazz pianist Herbie Hancock on his album Gershwin's World in an arrangement of Gershwin's Prelude in C ♯ minor . December 1999 saw the release of Fantasia 2000 , on which she is the featured soprano in Elgar 's Pomp and Circumstance Marches performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Chorus and conducted by long-time collaborator James Levine . In solo recitals she performed in cities including Los Angeles, New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago in programs that featured art songs from

609-671: A concert of spirituals at the Met in November 2016. Battle later performed at the Metropolitan Opera again on May 12, 2024 where she received a standing ovation at the beginning of the concert upon entering the stage. Choral and symphonic Major oratorio , choral , and symphonic works in which Battle has performed as a soloist: Opera Battle has portrayed the following roles on stage: Concert and recital Battle's concert and recital repertoire encompasses

696-573: A concert program and a CD devoted to spirituals to a recording of baroque music , from performances of complete operas to recitals and recordings with jazz musicians. In 1990, Battle and Jessye Norman performed a program of spirituals at Carnegie Hall with James Levine conducting. In the same year, she returned to Covent Garden to sing Norina in Don Pasquale and performed in a series of solo recitals in California, as well as appearing at

783-851: A fully staged production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (regional Emmy for Best Arts Program, 2013). As chancellor, Mauceri brought his students to perform, assist, and observe productions at the Hollywood Bowl, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Danish National Orchestra (Copenhagen), the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the opera of Bilbao, Spain, the Aspen Music Festival, the 50th Anniversary Grammy Award Ceremony,

870-617: A guest conductor and music director of the opera program at the Yale School of Music. Mauceri is credited for building the Yale Symphony Orchestra into one of the most respected student orchestras in the world. During his tenure with the YSO he brought the orchestra to Paris ( Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ) for Paris premieres of Ives's Symphony No. 4 , Debussy's Khamma and Scriabin's Prométhée . He produced and conducted

957-887: A highly acclaimed Semele at Carnegie Hall. She returned to Salzburg various times to sing Susanna , Zerlina , and Despina , Mozart roles which she also sang at several other opera houses during that period. Battle became an established artist at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1980s, singing more than 150 performances with the company in 13 different operas, including the Met's first production of Handel 's Giulio Cesare . Other opera houses where she performed include San Francisco Opera , English National Opera , Grand Théâtre de Genève , Vienna State Opera , and Deutsche Oper Berlin . During this period, she received three Grammy awards for her recordings: Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart (1986), Salzburg Recital (1987), and Ariadne auf Naxos (1987). Battle's 1986 collaboration with guitarist Christopher Parkening entitled Pleasures of Their Company

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1044-664: A limited run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music . This version of the show was given a Special Tony Award for "The Advancement of the American Musical Theatre". He subsequently served as music director for the "Opera House" version of Candide (providing additional orchestrations and supervising the placement of the music within the text of Hugh Wheeler's book) that premiered at the New York City Opera in 1982. Its 1986 recording won Mauceri

1131-580: A permanent orchestra was in 1945 as the "Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra" under the direction of Leopold Stokowski . They had a number of recordings under Stokowski plus others under different conductors, including: However, after only two seasons, the orchestra was disbanded, and all the summer orchestral concerts at the Hollywood Bowl were subsequently performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. However, another incarnation of

1218-544: A press conference announcing the formation of a second orchestra under its auspices, this time titled "Hollywood Bowl Orchestra". There were four primary reasons for its existence: The first public performances by the orchestra were for Independence Day concerts on July 2–4, 1991 at the Hollywood Bowl with Mauceri conducting and Bruce Hubbard (baritone) as soloist. The program included works by Aaron Copland , Leonard Bernstein , John Williams , George Gershwin , and Jerome Kern among others. John Henken's concert review in

1305-436: A recital at Alice Tully Hall (also released on CD). In May 1993 Battle added pop music to her repertoire with the release of Janet Jackson 's album Janet , lending her vocals to the song "This Time". An album of Japanese melodies, First Love , followed in November 1993. On the opera stage, she performed in a variety of Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti operas. Between 1990 and 1993, she performed in several productions at

1392-689: A recital at Carnegie Hall in April 1965, was in the audience that night and Battle dedicated Rachmaninoff's " In the Silence of the Secret Night " to her. The recording of the recital earned Battle her fourth Grammy award. Another first came in January 1992 when Battle premiered André Previn 's song cycle Honey and Rue with lyrics by Toni Morrison . The work was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and composed specifically for Battle. In December 1993 she

1479-578: A report in The Boston Globe called "a froth of ill will". In February 1994, during rehearsals for an upcoming production of La fille du régiment at the Metropolitan Opera, Battle was said to have subjected her fellow performers to "withering criticism" and made "almost paranoid demands that they not look at her." General Manager Joseph Volpe responded by dismissing Battle from the production for "unprofessional actions" during rehearsals. Volpe called Battle's conduct "profoundly detrimental to

1566-414: A result of its success, the received wisdom of rewriting old musicals and adding new orchestrations and hit songs from other shows was challenged and has led to a proliferation of organizations that present classic American musicals with their original scores restored as written, though these performances are generally in a semi-staged format. Andrew Lloyd Webber attended a performance of La bohème at

1653-742: A season benefit. In October 2007, at a fundraiser for the Keep a Child Alive Charity, Kathleen Battle and Alicia Keys performed the song Miss Sarajevo written by U2 's Bono . On April 16, 2008, she sang an arrangement of the Lord's Prayer for Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of his papal visit to the White House . This marks the second time she sang for a pope. (She first sang for Pope John Paul II in 1985 as soprano soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass.) Later that year, she performed " Superwoman " on

1740-625: A select number of musical artists who have already established themselves as forces to be reckoned with and who will be the Standard Bearers of the 21st Century's music scene." The recipients were chosen for "their visionary talent and technical virtuosity". In addition, CNN and CNN International chose Mauceri as a "Voice of the Millennium". In other media, Mauceri had a small role as the character Claude Maginot in 2002's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City . He appeared briefly as himself in

1827-571: A teacher, a friend and fellow church choir member phoned her and informed her that the conductor Thomas Schippers was holding auditions in Cincinnati. At her audition Schippers engaged her to sing as the soprano soloist in Brahms' German Requiem at the 1972 Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. Her performance there on July 9, 1972 marked the beginning of her professional career. During

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1914-460: A variety of eras and regions, opera arias, and spirituals. Battle has continued to pursue a number of diverse projects including the works of composers who are not associated with traditional classical music, performing the works of Vangelis , Stevie Wonder , and George Gershwin. In August 2000, she performed an all-Schubert program at Ravinia. In June 2001, she and frequent collaborator soprano Jessye Norman performed Vangelis' Mythodea at

2001-807: A variety of local artists and specialists for one-off engagements. Since 1922, orchestras performed regularly at the Bowl, primarily ones from the Los Angeles area. In 1927 a "Hollywood Bowl Orchestra" was established under conductor Eugene Goossens . The orchestra made a series of recordings for Victor in 1928 issued as "Symphonies under the Stars" notable for being recorded in the open air. Guest conductors of these events included Alfred Hertz , Ossip Gabrilowitsch , Bruno Walter , Pierre Monteux , Pietro Crimini, Modest Altschuler , Adolf Tandler , and Vladimir Shavitch (in addition to Goossens). The first incarnation of

2088-710: A wide array of music including classical, jazz, and crossover works. Her jazz and crossover repertoire includes the compositions of Duke Ellington , George Gershwin , Leonard Bernstein , André Previn , Rodgers and Hammerstein , and Stevie Wonder among others. She is known for her performances of African-American spirituals . Among the conductors with whom Battle has worked are Herbert von Karajan , Riccardo Muti , Zubin Mehta , Seiji Ozawa , Claudio Abbado , Georg Solti , Carlo Maria Giulini , and Battle's fellow Ohioan James Levine , music director at New York's Metropolitan Opera. She has performed with many orchestras, including

2175-1036: Is also a leading performer of music banned by the Third Reich and especially music of Hollywood's émigré composers. Born in New York City, Mauceri attended East Meadow High School on Long Island and studied music theory and composition at Yale University earning a BA in 1967 and a Master of Philosophy in music theory in 1972. His 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. In addition he studied 20th-century architecture with Vincent Scully , French literature with Henri Peyre , religion ( Pelikan and Kuttner) and psychology (Logan and Childe). In his senior year he made his conducting debut (December 4, 1966, Branford College ), composed

2262-504: Is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone. Born in Portsmouth, Ohio , Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances with major orchestras during the early and mid-1970s. She made her opera debut in 1975. Battle expanded her repertoire into lyric soprano and coloratura soprano roles during the 1980s and early 1990s, until her eventual dismissal from

2349-410: Is the first American ever to have held the post of music director of an opera house in either Great Britain or Italy. Through his sedulously researched renditions of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent operas, Mauceri solidified his reputation "as a musicologist and theorist" as he was "the first to demonstrate, in print and in performance, that the use of metronomic tempos were a structural element in

2436-414: Is the first fully digital Broadway cast album (TER Limited: CDTER 1063). The show was nominated for five Antoinette Perry ("Tony") Awards and won two: for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical ( Natalia Makarova ). In addition, On Your Toes won four Drama Desk Awards (Outstanding Revival; Outstanding Actress in a Musical; Outstanding Director of a Musical; Outstanding Orchestrations). As

2523-695: The American Music Awards with Alicia Keys and Queen Latifah . Since that time she has appeared in the occasional piano-voice recital, including a recital of works by Schubert, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff in Costa Mesa, California accompanied by Olga Kern (February 2010) and a recital in Carmel, Indiana , accompanied by Joel A. Martin (April 2013). After a 22-year absence from the Metropolitan Opera House, Battle performed

2610-501: The Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic . Battle's Carnegie Hall solo recital debut came on April 27, 1991 as part of the hall's Centennial Festival. Accompanied by pianist Margo Garrett, she sang arias and songs by Handel , Mozart , Liszt , Rachmaninoff , Gershwin and Richard Strauss , as well as several traditional spirituals. The contralto Marian Anderson , who had ended her farewell tour with

2697-622: The Los Angeles Philharmonic and his operatic debut conducting Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street at the Wolf Trap Festival. Committed to preserving two American art forms, the Broadway musical, and Hollywood film scores, he has edited and performed many restorations and first performances, including a full restoration of the original 1943 production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! , performing editions of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess , Girl Crazy and Strike up

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2784-739: The Los Angeles Times praised Mauceri for choosing "an Americana program that was nicely paced, reasonably varied and made musical as well as patriotic points. More importantly, he got his orchestra to project it all with exuberance and flair." During Mauceri's tenure, he and the orchestra largely fulfilled the goals announced when the orchestra was founded. From among the Orchestra's more than 300 concerts, Kathleen Battle , Plácido Domingo , Jane Eaglen , Marilyn Horne , Alexander Frey , Jennifer Larmore , Sylvia McNair , Andrea Bocelli , Gil Shaham , Stephen Hough , Luciano Pavarotti and

2871-530: The Metropolitan Opera in 1994. She later has focused on recording and the concert stage. After a 22-year absence from the Met, Battle performed a concert of spirituals at the Metropolitan Opera House in November 2016, and again in May 2024. Battle was born in Portsmouth, Ohio , the youngest of seven children. Her father was a steelworker, and her mother was an active participant in the gospel music of

2958-918: The Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit . She made her New York City Opera debut the following year as Susanna in Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro , and in 1977 made both her San Francisco Opera debut as Oscar in Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera and her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Shepherd in Wagner 's Tannhäuser . The latter performance was conducted by James Levine. Battle made her Glyndebourne Festival debut (and UK debut) singing Nerina in Haydn 's La fedeltà premiata in 1979. Throughout

3045-988: The New York Philharmonic , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the Berlin Philharmonic , the Vienna Philharmonic , and the Orchestre de Paris . She has also appeared at the Salzburg Festival , Ravinia Festival , Tanglewood Festival , Blossom Festival, the Hollywood Bowl , Mann Music Centre Festival and

3132-512: The Royal Opera House , Covent Garden, in the winter of 1984 that was conducted by Mauceri and as a result invited him to be the musical supervisor of the Broadway production of his Song and Dance , which opened on September 18, 1985, and received eight Tony Award nominations, and one win for Bernadette Peters . In October 1995, after the first recording session for the soundtrack to Evita failed, "Andrew ... suggested we bring in

3219-813: The San Francisco Ballet represent the illustrious talent from the worlds of opera, ballet and classical music that has graced the stage with the Orchestra. Trisha Yearwood , Garth Brooks (in his only performance with an orchestra), and the late John Denver brought to their performances the irrepressible optimism of Country-Western. Jason Alexander , Carol Burnett , Kristin Chenoweth , Kirk Douglas , Patti LuPone , Reba McEntire , Lynn Redgrave , Peabo Bryson , Harry Connick Jr. , Alan Cumming , Davis Gaines , Savion Glover , Joel Grey , Garrison Keillor , Leonard Nimoy , Brian Stokes Mitchell and Patrick Stewart have brought their inimitable gifts to

3306-700: The Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, Greece. In July 2003 she performed at the Ravinia Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gala with Bobby McFerrin and Denyce Graves . In 2006 she and James Ingram sang the song They Won't Go When I Go in a Tribute to Stevie Wonder and she began including Wonder's music in her recitals. In July 2007 she debuted at the Aspen Music Festival performing an all- Gershwin program as part of

3393-424: The "degenerate composers" of Europe and the refugee composers of Hollywood is the subject of much of his research and his writings. In addition, Mauceri has conducted significant premieres of works by Verdi , Debussy , Hindemith , Ives , Stockhausen , and Weill . 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

3480-565: The 1980s, Battle performed in recitals, choral works and opera. Her work continued to take her to performance venues around the world. In 1980 she made her Zürich Opera debut as Adina in Donizetti 's L'elisir d'amore . In 1982, she made her Salzburg Festival debut in Così fan tutte , followed three days later by an appearance in one of the Festival's Mozart Matinee concerts. In 1985, she

3567-679: The American premiere of Strauss's silent film (1926) of Der Rosenkavalier , the world premiere of a completely staged pageant-version of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen involving 1000 performers on Yale's Cross Campus, the American premiere of Hindemith's orchestrated songs Das Marienleben and rare performances of Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (with coordinated lasers), John Cage 's Atlas Eclipticalis , Wagner's Das Rheingold , Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder , Messiaen 's Réveil des oiseaux and Stravinsky's Agon . In 1973, Mauceri made both his professional orchestral debut with

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3654-597: The Band , Bernstein's Candide and A Quiet Place , and film scores by Miklós Rózsa , Franz Waxman , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Max Steiner , Elmer Bernstein , Jerry Goldsmith , Danny Elfman and Howard Shore . As one of two conductors in Decca Records ' award-winning series Entartete Musik , Mauceri made a number of historic first recordings of music banned by the Nazis as degenerate music . The intersection of

3741-495: The Bowl stage. Hosting Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Chicago, Cheap Trick, The Chieftains, Sergio Mendes, The Moody Blues , Pink Martini , Tito Puente and the Latin Jazz Ensemble, Royal Crown Revue, and Rufus Wainwright , the Orchestra has proven itself in the world of pop and rock. Rosemary Clooney , Natalie Cole , Ann Miller , Della Reese , Sir George Martin , and Peter, Paul & Mary are among artists with whom

3828-767: The Caramoor Festival, and at Cincinnati May Festival. In recital, she has been accompanied on the piano by various accompanists including Margo Garrett , Martin Katz, Warren Jones, James Levine, Joel Martin, Ken Noda , Sandra Rivers, Howard Watkins, Dennis Helmrich, JJ Penna, and Ted Taylor. Collaborations with other classical artists include flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal , soprano Jessye Norman , mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade and Florence Quivar , violinist Itzhak Perlman , baritone Thomas Hampson , tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo , trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and guitarist Christopher Parkening . Away from

3915-610: The Gershwins' 1930 score to Girl Crazy (Elektra Nonesuch 9 79250-2) in 1990 (winner of the Edison Klassiek Award), both the 1927 and 1930 versions of the Gershwins' Strike Up the Band (1991 – Elektra Nonesuch 79273-2 and PS Classics PS-1100 respectively) and most importantly On Your Toes (1936) by Rodgers and Hart which he initiated and co-produced in 1983. Mauceri, representing the Kennedy Center for

4002-630: The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra continued into the 1950s and '60s, led by such conductors as Slatkin , Miklós Rózsa , Carmen Dragon , and Alfred Newman , and made numerous recordings for Capitol Records . On October 17, 1990, the management of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LAPA) led by Ernest Fleischmann (LAPA Executive VP and Managing Director at the time) and John Mauceri , newly appointed Principal Conductor, held

4089-580: The Met, Michael Walsh of Time magazine reported that "the cast of The Daughter of the Regiment applauded when it was told during rehearsal that Battle had been fired." After she sang with the San Francisco Opera at this time, several backstage workers wore T-shirts that read: "I survived the Battle". In a statement released by her management company, Columbia Artists , Battle said: "I

4176-518: The Metropolitan Opera during the early 1990s, her relationship with the company's management showed increasing signs of strain during those years. As Battle's status grew, so did her reputation for being difficult and demanding. In October 1992 when she opened the Boston Symphony Orchestra season, she reportedly banned an assistant conductor and other musicians from her rehearsals, changed hotels several times, and left behind what

4263-718: The Metropolitan Opera: Rosina in The Barber of Seville (1990), Pamina in The Magic Flute (1991 and 1993), and Adina (with Luciano Pavarotti as Nemorino) in L'elisir d'amore (1991, 1992, and the Met's 1993 Japan Tour). She also won her fifth Grammy Award in 1993, singing the title role of Semele on the Deutsche Grammophon recording conducted by John Nelson . Although Battle gave several critically praised performances at

4350-447: The Orchestra has been privileged to work. And, in the 1999 season, John Mauceri stepped aside to allow the mayor of Los Angeles, the Honorable Richard J. Riordan, to make his conducting debut at the Bowl with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. John Mauceri John Francis Mauceri /maʊˈtʃɛri/ (born September 12, 1945) is an American conductor, producer, educator and writer. Since making his professional conducting debut almost half

4437-413: The Performing Arts , hired George Abbott (then 96 years old), George Balanchine (his last assignment) and found the original orchestrator, Hans Spialek , to restore the score. On Your Toes ran 505 performances on Broadway and marked the first time a musical from the 1930s was seen and heard on Broadway with its original musical elements intact in over a generation. Its cast album, conducted by Mauceri,

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4524-426: The Ravinia Festival, the Washington National Opera, as well as the opening of the North Carolina Museum of Art and the 2013 Rite at 100 Festival at Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall. Prior to his time at UNCSA, Mauceri served on the faculty of his alma mater, Yale University for 15 years where he "taught orchestration, conducting, gave guest lectures in the German and Italian Departments and, with the Yale Symphony, developed

4611-407: The Wrexham Prize "for highest musical achievement", the Francis Vernan Prize for composition, and the Branford Arts Prize for his "devotion to the advancement of the arts". Accepted with a full scholarship into Yale's Graduate School in music theory, he was soon appointed to the faculty as music director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra (1968–1974) and continued on for a total of fifteen years as both

4698-451: The YSO for the European premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass in Vienna (broadcast worldwide on PBS , BBC and the ORF ), 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 . His programs drew capacity audiences for seven years and included the American premiere of Debussy's 1913 ballet Khamma ,

4785-421: The Yale Symphony and Yale Philharmonia in a concert celebrating the 300th anniversary of the founding of Yale College on April 19, 2001. Mauceri is a "defendant administrator" in a lawsuit filed in the fall of 2021 against the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and 29 other former faculty and staff by 56 former students who allege they suffered sexual abuse at the school across several decades. All of

4872-411: The artistic collaboration among all the cast members" and indicated that he had "canceled all offers that have been made for the future." Any input that Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine (Battle’s close friend and collaborator for 20 years) may have had is shrouded in mystery. Battle was replaced in Donizetti's La fille du régiment by Harolyn Blackwell . At the time of her termination from

4959-421: The celebrated American conductor John Mauceri. ... By the end of the week, the maestro Mauceri had performed his magic with a brilliant catchment of the finest orchestral players in London and all thoughts of Black Monday were forgotten." As gratitude for his work on the film, Mauceri was given something unheard of in film—a full screen credit, even though he had no contract for any billing whatsoever. Mauceri led

5046-414: The charge in reassessing the American works of Kurt Weill , which had been generally viewed as inferior to his German works. In 1978, he conducted Weill's 1947 opera Street Scene at the New York City Opera, which was so successful, it was broadcast in the subsequent season on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center . Beginning with Weill's Lady in the Dark at the Edinburgh Festival in 1988, and followed by

5133-411: The classical side, she has worked with vocalists Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin , Alicia Keys , and James Ingram, jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. , jazz pianists Cyrus Chestnut and Herbie Hancock . Battle also lent voice to the song "This Time" on Janet Jackson 's album Janet and sang the title song, "Lovers", for the 2004 Chinese action movie, House of Flying Daggers . She also performs

5220-513: The complete score which had never been heard with its complete fourth act and never in Europe. These performances were co-productions of the New Israeli Opera , the Chemnitz Opera in Germany and the Brooklyn Academy of Music . The work was performed in its original German text by fellow refugee Franz Werfel and televised in Europe from its Chemnitz performances. In 2001, Mauceri led the world premiere recording of Weill's early operatic success, Der Protagonist from 1926 ( Capriccio 60 086) which

5307-551: The composer's continuity of style and ideas. In addition, his Berlin recordings include Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins ( Die sieben Todsünden ) with Lemper, the Little Mahagonny ( Mahagonny-Songspiel ) and the first German language recording of The Threepenny Opera ( Die Dreigroschenoper ) made in over forty years (Decca 430 075-2 LH) released in 1989. In 2000, he led a series of performances of Kurt Weill's 1933 bible play, The Eternal Road ( Der Weg der Verheissung ) in which he and musicologist Ed Harsh restored

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5394-458: The composers request. In addition to his guest appearances at the world's great opera houses, Mauceri also served as music director of the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center as well as Pittsburgh Opera , and was direttore stabile of the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, for three years. His time in Italy was preceded by the seven years where he served as music director of Scottish Opera where he helmed 22 productions and three recordings. Mauceri

5481-459: The concept of thematic programming built on his studies of information theory, linguistics, and psychoacoustics". 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. He 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. In addition, he conducted both

5568-411: The concert stage. She was a featured guest artist on the May 1994 album Tenderness , singing a duet, " My Favorite Things ", with Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Al Jarreau . In 1995 she presented a program of opera arias and popular songs at Lincoln Center with baritone Thomas Hampson , conductor John Nelson , and the Orchestra of St. Luke's . She also released two albums in 1995: So Many Stars ,

5655-541: The family's African Methodist Episcopal church. Battle attended Portsmouth High School , where her music teacher and mentor was Charles P. (Phil) Varney. In a 1985 Time Magazine interview, Varney recalled the first time he heard the eight-year-old Battle sing, describing her as "this tiny little thing singing so beautifully." "I went to her later", Varney recalled, "and told her God had blessed her, and she must always sing." In that same interview, music critic Michael Walsh described Battle as "the best lyric coloratura in

5742-683: The first professional production of Street Scene in the UK, Mauceri argued that the American works were equal to and continued directly out of the German works. His recording of Street Scene (Decca 433 371–2) released in 1991, is the first complete recording of any American theater work of Kurt Weill. Mauceri brought Street Scene for its country premieres in Portugal ( Lisbon Opera ), and Italy ( Teatro Regio, Turin ). In addition, he brought Weill's music back to Berlin, where it had been mostly forgotten. Two recordings with Ute Lemper ( Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill Volumes 1 and 2) represented Weill's music with texts in German, French and English, demonstrating

5829-422: The first time an American orchestra was invited to Brazil specifically to perform the great music of the American cinema." Breaking all records at the Bowl, he conducted over 300 concerts at the 18,000-seat amphitheater with a total audience of four million people. In addition to being inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame alongside Plácido Domingo in 2007, Mauceri received a Treasure of Los Angeles Award,

5916-453: The music for a production of Brecht 's A Man Is a Man , guest conducted the Yale Symphony Orchestra (YSO), and produced and music directed Benjamin Britten 's Curlew River at Yale's St. Thomas More Chapel (March 11 and 12, 1967) and then brought the production to New York City for its New York premiere, which took place at the Catholic Chapel of the United Nations (Holy Family church) on May 13 and 14, 1967. He graduated cum laude , won

6003-570: The next several years, Battle would go on to sing in several more orchestral concerts in New York, Los Angeles, and Cleveland. In 1973 she was awarded a grant from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music to support her career. William Mullen, managing director of the Santa Fe Concert Association, was on the panel of judges who made the award. In 2004 he recalled: We would meet monthly, listen to up-and-coming concert artists and give money to deserving artists for further study. A very young Kathleen Battle sang for us. The other judges thought her voice

6090-542: The operas of Giuseppe Verdi". He has spoken about and written numerous articles expounding his fidelity to the composer's intent and the necessity of fully understanding it in performance. After forty years of dormancy the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra was re-created for Mauceri by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in 1991. "During his sixteen-season tenure, Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra toured Japan four times and, in November 1996, performed two public concerts in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, representing

6177-437: The plaintiffs were minors attending the high school program at the time of the alleged abuse. Mauceri is one of four former university chancellors named in the lawsuit. The complaint states that "Despite the clear obligation to [students] who chose to attend the school, UNCSA and Defendant Administrators instead permitted, participated in, encouraged, allowed, perpetuated and/or condoned a culture of sexual abuse and exploitation of

6264-433: The privilege of conducting the American and European premieres of Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place in 1984. In 1972 Mauceri was invited to be Bernstein's assistant for a new production of Carmen at the Met. This began an association between the two that would span the next eighteen years. During this time Mauceri edited, supervised and conducted numerous Bernstein works throughout the world, including many premieres, at

6351-636: The regular roster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic . This is in notable contrast to other orchestras of this class, namely the Boston Pops Orchestra which draws its players directly from the Boston Symphony (i.e. the Boston Symphony without its principal players), and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra which prominently features only the highest-caliber musicians from its parent Cincinnati Symphony in addition to

6438-417: The school and secured significant private funds during the economic downturn that threatened the very existence of the school. At the time of his retirement from the post the school had $ 55 million worth of capital projects in the works, including a new library, and a film school animation building. For the first time in the school's history, the faculty agreed to having a ranking system, Kiplinger's ranked

6525-520: The school for the first time in its history as one of the "100 top Values in Public Education", and Mauceri raised the monies to support a television series of student performances which he also produced. These included The Nutcracker , a complete restoration of the original 1943 production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (winner of a National Educational Television Award), and the American premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score in

6612-527: The school's relationship with the UNC system. He implemented a two-semester calendar and conceived and implemented the school's first full summer school. Under his leadership the school's retention within the system ranked second only to UNC Chapel Hill. Mauceri increased UNCSA's endowment by 60% and successfully lobbied the NC General Assembly to grant recurring millions of dollars of appropriations to

6699-551: The second episode of the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip TV series, conducting the fictional "West Coast Philharmonic". Mauceri served as consultant on Todd Field 's script for the 2022 film Tár , helping to inform the tenor and accuracy of Lydia Tár's comments on classical music and musicians. Mauceri lives in New York City with his wife, Betty. Kathleen Battle Kathleen Deanna Battle (born August 13, 1948)

6786-702: The world". Battle was awarded a scholarship to the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music , where she studied voice with Franklin Bens and also worked with Italo Tajo . She majored in music education, and proceeded to a master's degree in Music Education. In 1971 she began a teaching career at an inner-city public school in Cincinnati, continuing to study voice privately while teaching 5th and 6th grade music. Later, she studied singing with Daniel Ferro in New York. In 1972, her second year as

6873-519: The young students in their care." Mauceri is one of the world's most accomplished recording artists, having released over 75 audio CDs and is the recipient of Grammy, Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Edison Klassiek, 3 Emmy Awards, 2 Diapasons d'Or, Cannes Classique, ECHO Klassik, Billboard, and four Deutsche Schallplatten awards. In 1999, Mauceri was chosen as a "Standard-bearer of the Twentieth Century" for WQXR . According to WQXR, "These are

6960-716: Was also broadcast on German radio in a concert performance in the Berliner Philharmonie . After making his operatic debut at the Wolf Trap Festival in 1973, Mauceri continued to build his operatic repertoire conducting at the Metropolitan Opera , La Scala , the Royal Opera House , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , and numerous others around the world. At San Francisco Opera he conducted the premiere of Andrew Imbrie 's Angle of Repose in 1976. At Washington Opera and La Scala, Mauceri had

7047-580: Was extended multiple times until 2014 when Wilkins was promoted to Principal Conductor. The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra has 80-100 players drawn from the large pool of world-class freelance musicians in the Southern California area, many of whom perform regularly with movie studios , regional orchestras, and other entertainment-related organizations. There is no cross-over between the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra musicians and

7134-521: Was joined by Martin Katz and Kenny Barron on piano and Grady Tate (drums), Grover Washington Jr. (saxophone) and David Williams (bass) at Carnegie Hall for a concert featuring the music of Handel, Haydn , and Duke Ellington as well as Christmas spirituals. During this time she also collaborated with other musicians including trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in a recording of baroque arias entitled, Baroque Duet ; violinist Itzhak Perlman on an album of Bach arias; and flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal for

7221-768: Was nominated for the Classical Album of the Year Grammy award. She also received the Laurence Olivier Award (1985) for her stage performance as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Opera House, London. Critical response to Battle's performances had rarely varied throughout the years following her debut. In 1985, Time Magazine pronounced her "the best lyric coloratura soprano in the world". The 1990s saw projects ranging from

7308-401: Was not told by anyone at the Met about any unprofessional actions. To my knowledge, we were working out all of the artistic problems in the rehearsals, and I don't know the reason behind this unexpected dismissal. All I can say is I am saddened by this decision." Since then, Battle has not performed in opera. For the remainder of the decade, she worked extensively in the recording studio and on

7395-598: Was the soprano soloist in Mozart 's Coronation Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican , conducted by Herbert von Karajan . That same year she made her Royal Opera debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos . In 1987 Karajan invited Battle to sing Johann Strauss' Voices of Spring for the Vienna New Year's Day concert . In opera she sang a variety of roles including Oscar at Lyric Opera of Chicago and

7482-985: Was too small, but I thought she had an incredible ability to communicate through music. I talked the other judges into giving her a grant. Thomas Schippers introduced Kathleen Battle to his fellow conductor James Levine who selected Battle to sing in Mahler 's Symphony No. 8 at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 's May Festival in 1974. This was the beginning of a friendship and close professional association between Battle and Levine that would last for 20 years and resulted in several recordings and performances in recital and concert performances, including engagements in Salzburg , Ravinia , and Carnegie Hall . Battle made her professional operatic debut in 1975 as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville with

7569-580: Was transferred to the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London where it won the 1988 Olivier Award as "Musical of the Year." Bernstein subsequently recorded this version in London, and it won him a posthumous Grammy for "Best Classical Album" of 1990. Mauceri took a leadership role in reevaluating the American musical theater in his historically informed performances and recordings of classic American musicals, such as

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