The star of “Tár” reunites with her opening-scene partner for a conversation about listening to music, going before audiences, and the art of acting in life and in the movies....

...Written By White Men For An All-Black Cast Was Found And Restored. Can It Be Produced Without Controversy?...

Why isn’t John Williams treated like Igor Stravinsky?...

The dialogue in “Tár,” Todd Field’s movie about a high-profile classical-music conductor, rings true at every turn......

"'The War on Music' is a stellar work of great scholarship and polemical worth......

I had the pleasure of being a consultant for the film Tár, about the fictional......

The Yale Symphony Orchestra, which I directed from 1968–75, has made available a nine-page gallery with programs, letters, photos, and a million other documents of the time......

If the most successful fake-medieval epics look like this: why does every new #WagnerRing look like this? Let's try something truly radical: respect RW's essential understanding that universal stories are told from our collective imaginary past....

Interview and book review from Liner Notes, Issue 2, 2022, including: For five decades, John Mauceri has had an extraordinary impact on musical life internationally. One of America’s most celebrated conductors, he is also a writer, lecturer, teacher, and producer. Mauceri is responsible for introd...

This is John's 90-minute presentation at Yale of his recent book, The War on Music......