Alec Baldwin talks to celebrated conductor and author John Mauceri about music, acting, and John's new book FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC.

ABOUT FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC

With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience?

A protégé of Leonard Bernstein–his colleague for eighteen years–and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. Briefly, we learn the way a musical tradition born in ancient Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire, and subsequently nurtured by influences from across the globe, gave shape to the classical music that came to be embraced by cultures from Japan to Bolivia. Then Mauceri examines the music itself, helping us understand what it is we hear when we listen to classical music: how, by a kind of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience–a unique one each and every time–allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.

Mr. Mauceri conducts his arrangement of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with soloists Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang. The orchestra included two of his students from NCSA and was seen by a worldwide audience of 100 million.

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More of Neill McNeill's interview with North Carolina School of the Arts Chancellor John Mauceri. From MyFoxWGHP.com.

Video introduction to John's 300th concert with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Narrated by Garth Brooks.

Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow’s vie to succeed John Mauceri as the Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in their introduction to John’s final concert as Director.

Patrick Stewart's personal message to John upon his induction to the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame.

Highlights from John Mauceri's Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame induction concert held on June 22, 2007. Introductions by Patrick Stewart and Carol Lawrence.

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N.C. State's 25th annual Emerging Issues Forum, a chance for minds from across the state and across country to come together to discuss ways to move North Carolina forward. For many years, the UNC School of the Arts has been training young people for jobs in creative industries. Students will get a chance to demonstrate their education's return on investment when they perform.

The NEA Opera Honors ceremony and concert took place on October 27, 2011 at the Sidney Harman Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Hosted by NPR's Nina Totenberg, the event celebrated the lifetime achievements of designer John Conklin, general director Speight Jenkins, Mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens, and composer Robert Ward.

Commerce of Creativity Distinguished Speakers Series lecture with John Mauceri at California State University, Northridge on March 28, 2013, followed by an audience Q&A session.

Mauceri's musical journey has taken him to the world's greatest opera companies, symphony orchestras and musical stages of both Europe and America. Regarded as the most eminent performer of the music of Hollywood's émigré composers, Mauceri has taken the lead in preserving, performing and conducting the works of artists as diverse as Debussy, Stockhausen, Bernstein, Elfman and Ives. He has recorded more than 70 albums and earned extensive international recognition, including a Grammy, Olivier, Cannes Classique, two Emmys and four Deutsche Schallplatten awards.

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This video was shot on opening night, April 28, 2011, of the all-school production of Oklahoma! at the Stevens Center. Chancellor John Mauceri is introducing Celeste Holm, the original Ado Annie, and Joan Roberts, the original Laurey. Both ladies have passed away since that glorious night, but this posting is in celebration of the 70th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!.

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts does a painstaking recreation of Oklahoma as it premiered in 1943.

Playbill broadcast announcement.

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts does a painstaking recreation of Oklahoma as it premiered in 1943.

Playbill broadcast announcement.

The life and work of Dr. Miklos Rozsa

A speech from New York's Neue Galerie called "What Happened to the Music Hitler Banned?" on the influence of four refugee composers who fled to America.

Kiri just posted this from 30 years ago. The sound is occasionally wonky and not in synch, but her Sogno di Doretta and, well, just about everything she did that night were magnificent.

Seen only once in 1981, this is a live national broadcast of the 10th anniversary production of MASS. Directed for the stage by Tom O'Horgan of "Hair" fame, the cameras were directed by Emile Ardolino. The work that opened the Kennedy Center is conducted by John Mauceri and produced for PBS by WQED, Pittsburgh.

This BBC telecast represents the world premiere of the 1988 Scottish Opera version of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, directed by Jonathan Miller and John Wells. Bernstein attends and John Mauceri conducts this most complete version of the score ever seen on the stage. Directed for the cameras by Humphrey Burton.

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Some call John Mauceri the musical Leonardo DaVinci of our time. The internationally recognized conductor has worked with some of the world's greatest orchestras, opera companies and soloists. His current job is Chancellor at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Neill McNeill reports Mauceri is determined to give the school more international recognition and change its local reputation.