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'''John Alexander McGlinn III''' (September 18, 1953 – February 14, 2009) was an American conductor and musical theatre archivist. He was onea leading advocate of the principal proponentsuse of authenticoriginal orchestrations and vocal arrangements in [[Studio recording|studio cast recordings]] of [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[Musical theatre|musicals]], usingand originalhe orchestrationsmade andseveral vocalnotable arrangementsalbums exemplifying his philosophy of historical authenticity.
 
==Biography==
John Alexander McGlinn III was born in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]], and was raised in [[Gladwyne, Pennsylvania]]. A self-taught pianist, he studied music theory and composition at [[Northwestern University]], graduating in 1976.<ref name=obit/> His 1984 ''Songs of New York'' for [[Book of the Month Club]] was not his first experience as a recording conductor. He had conducted ''Hey Feller!'' and ''Misery's Come Round'' using Karla Burns and members of a [[Houston Grand Opera]] production of ''Show Boat'' for one of the ''Jerome Kern Revisited'' albums on Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles Records. He had also worked for [[New York City Opera]] and planned a book on [[Jerome Kern]].{{cn|date=August 2024}}
 
His first recording, 1984's ''Songs of New York'' for the [[Book of the Month Club]] was not his first experience as a conductor. He had previously conducted ''Hey Feller!'' and ''Misery's Come Round'', using Karla Burns and members of the Houston Grand Opera production of ''Show Boat'', for one of the "Jerome Kern Revisiteds" for Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles Records. He had previously worked for the [[New York City Opera]] and planned a book on [[Jerome Kern]]. McGlinn's interest in Kern emerged at the same time as a 1970s' revival of interest in authentic American music, including a [[Scott Joplin]] revival and [[Gunther Schuller]]'s [[ragtime]] performances. In the early 1980s heMcGlinn joined with the Houston Grand Opera to work on a major revival of Kern and [[Oscar Hammerstein II]]'s ''[[Show Boat]]'', acting as musical editor and restoring theits original orchestrations for the production.<ref name=obit/> He also did some workworked for [[Ira Gershwin]] on original orchestrations for several Gershwin projects and worked with veteran orchestrator Hans Spialek on the 1983 Broadway revival of ''[[On Your Toes]].'' Following the Book of the Month Club recording, McGlinn performed three Kern musicals in concert at the [[Carnegie Hall#Weill Recital Hall|Carnegie Recital Hall]] and this success led to a recording contract with [[EMI]]-[[Angel Records]]. The first recordings were an album of [[George Gershwin]] songs with Dame [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] and a program of Gershwin overtures.
 
After the Book-of-the-Month Club recording he performed three Kern musicals in concert at [[Carnegie Hall#Weill Recital Hall|Carnegie Recital Hall]], and this led to a recording contract with [[EMI Records]], the first fruits of which were albums of Gershwin songs with [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] and Gershwin overtures.
From 1987 to 1992 he made recordings of the complete scores for ''[[Show Boat]],'' ''[[Anything Goes]]'', ''[[Brigadoon (musical)|Brigadoon]]'', ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (musical)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'', ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]'', and an obscure Jerome Kern musical, ''[[Sitting Pretty (1924 musical)|Sitting Pretty]]''.▼
 
▲From 1987 to 1992 he made best-selling recordings of the complete scores forof ''[[Show Boat]],'' ''[[Anything Goes]]'', ''[[Brigadoon (musical)|Brigadoon]]'', ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (musical)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'', ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]'', and an obscure Jerome Kern musical, ''[[Sitting Pretty (1924 musical)|Sitting Pretty]]''.
The three-disc, three-and-a-half hour ''Show Boat'' album was highly acclaimed, and the one-disc ''Anything Goes'' album, was acclaimed by some, but panned by others.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Blackwell-Musical-Theatre-Record-Guides/dp/0631165177/ref=cm_cr-mr-title</ref><ref>http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/e/emi49848a.php</ref><ref name=back/><ref>{{cite news |first= Howard|last= Reich|authorlink=Howard Reich |coauthors= |title=Everything 'Anything' John McGlinn restores luster to a Cole Porter gem. |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24591632.html?dids=24591632:24591632&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+16%2C+1989&author=Howard+Reich%2C+Entertainment+writer.&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Everything+%60Anything%27+John+McGlinn+restores+luster+to+a+Cole+Porter+gem&pqatl=google |quote=When conductor John McGlinn released his definitive recording of Jerome Kern's "Show Boat" (on EMI) last year, he found himself quickly transformed from aspiring artist to rising star. |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=November 16, 1989 |accessdate=2009-02-19 }}</ref> ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine called McGlinn's ''Show Boat'' "''the'' show album of the past" and "a show album for the future.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Centennial |url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1985/03/25/1985_03_25_038_TNY_CARDS_000342327 |quote= |work=The New Yorker |date=March 25, 1985 |accessdate=2009-02-19 }}</ref>▼
It unites the possibilities of reproduction and reinvestigation." McGlinn unearthed the lost materials for ''Show Boat'' in a [[Secaucus, New Jersey]], warehouse in 1982.<ref name=back>{{cite news |first= Howard|last= Reich|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Back on Course |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24829458.html?dids=24829458:24829458&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+18%2C+1988&author=Howard+Reich%2C+Entertainment+writer&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=BACK+ON+COURSE+LOST+TUNES+AND+A+NEW+RECORD+KEEP+%27SHOW+BOAT%27+ROLLIN%27+ALONG&pqatl=google |quote=The EMI set of three compact discs, to be released nationally next week, is not simply a sensitively performed account of America's most famous musical, "Show Boat." It also happens to represent formidable detective work by McGlinn, who turned up nearly an hour's worth of music assumed lost since the musical first bowed in 1927. The newly discovered music reveals the show to be a considerably more pioneering work than had been previously understood, as well as a more dark and complex piece than any number of frothy revivals would have us believe. "When I first saw the lost music to 'Show Boat,' it was the most unbelievable moment of my life," says McGlinn, referring primarily to scores unearthed in a Secaucus, N.J., warehouse in 1982 (the Warner Bros. warehouse also yielded vintage scores by George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and others). "After years of reading and dreaming about what this music must be like, finally to have it in my hands was an overwhelming sensation." |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=September 18, 1988 |accessdate=2009-02-19 }}</ref>▼
 
▲The three-disc, three-and-a-half hour ''Show Boat'' album was highly acclaimed, and the one-disc ''Anything Goes'' album, was acclaimed by some, but panned by others.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/{{Cite book|isbn = 0631165177|title = The Blackwell- Guide to the Musical- Theatre- on Record-Guides/dp/0631165177/ref|last1 =cm_cr-mr-title Gänzl|first1 = Kurt|year = 1990}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/e/emi49848a.php|title = Classical Net Review - Cole Porter - Anything Goes}}</ref><ref name=back/><ref>{{cite news |first= Howard|last= Reich|authorlinkauthor-link=Howard Reich |coauthors= |title=Everything 'Anything' John McGlinn restores luster to a Cole Porter gem. |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24591632.html?dids=24591632:24591632&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+16%2C+1989&author=Howard+Reich%2C+Entertainment+writer.&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Everything+%60Anything%27+John+McGlinn+restores+luster+to+a+Cole+Porter+gem&pqatl=google |quote=When conductor John McGlinn released his definitive recording of Jerome Kern's "Show Boat" (on EMI) last year, he found himself quickly transformed from aspiring artist to rising star. |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=November 16, 1989 |accessdateaccess-date=2009-02-19 }}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine called McGlinn's ''Show Boat'' "''the'' show album of the past" and "a show album for the future.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors=magazine |title=Centennial |url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1985/03/25/1985_03_25_038_TNY_CARDS_000342327 |quote= |workmagazine=The New Yorker |date=March 25, 1985 |accessdateaccess-date=2009-02-19 }}</ref>
In 1992 EMI chose not to renew his contract. During this period he conducted many performances of musicals in concert, including the original 1925 ''[[No, No, Nanette]]'' (at the Carnegie Recital Hall), and the Kern-Hammerstein show ''[[Sunny (musical)|Sunny]].'' He made several radio appearances with the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] for [[BBC Radio 3]], conducted several concerts in conjunction with the [[Library of Congress]] Music Division, and was guest conductor on an "Evening With The Boston Pops" telecast. He returned to the recording studio to make two albums of excerpts from [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]] operas for [[Naxos Records]]. At the [[New York City Opera]] he conducted revivals of ''Brigadoon'' and ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]'' and, in 1993, at Juilliard School of Music, he conducted the Poulenc one-act operas ''La Voix Humaine'' and ''Les Mamelles de Tiresias''.
▲It unites the possibilities of reproduction and reinvestigation." McGlinn unearthed the lost materials for ''Show Boat'' in a [[Secaucus, New Jersey]], warehouse in 1982.<ref name=back>{{cite news |first= Howard|last= Reich|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Back on Course |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24829458.html?dids=24829458:24829458&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+18%2C+1988&author=Howard+Reich%2C+Entertainment+writer&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=BACK+ON+COURSE+LOST+TUNES+AND+A+NEW+RECORD+KEEP+%27SHOW+BOAT%27+ROLLIN%27+ALONG&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131162930/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24829458.html?dids=24829458:24829458&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+18,+1988&author=Howard+Reich,+Entertainment+writer&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=BACK+ON+COURSE+LOST+TUNES+AND+A+NEW+RECORD+KEEP+'SHOW+BOAT'+ROLLIN'+ALONG&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |quote=The EMI set of three compact discs, to be released nationally next week, is not simply a sensitively performed account of America's most famous musical, "Show Boat." It also happens to represent formidable detective work by McGlinn, who turned up nearly an hour's worth of music assumed lost since the musical first bowed in 1927. The newly discovered music reveals the show to be a considerably more pioneering work than had been previously understood, as well as a more dark and complex piece than any number of frothy revivals would have us believe. "When I first saw the lost music to 'Show Boat,' it was the most unbelievable moment of my life," says McGlinn, referring primarily to scores unearthed in a Secaucus, N.J., warehouse in 1982 (the Warner Bros. warehouse also yielded vintage scores by George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and others). "After years of reading and dreaming about what this music must be like, finally to have it in my hands was an overwhelming sensation." |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=September 18, 1988 |accessdateaccess-date=2009-02-19 }}</ref>
 
In 1992 EMI chose not to renew his contract. During this period he conducted many performances of musicals in concert, including the original 1925 ''[[No, No, Nanette]]'' (at the Carnegie Recital Hall), and the Kern-Hammerstein show ''[[Sunny (musical)|Sunny]].'' He made several radio appearances with the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] for [[BBC Radio 3]], conducted several concerts in conjunction with the [[Library of Congress]] Music Division, and was guest conductor on an "Evening With The Boston Pops" telecast. He returned to the recording studio to make two albums of excerpts from [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]] operas for [[Naxos Records]]. At the [[New York City Opera]] he conducted revivals of ''Brigadoon'' and ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]'' and, in 1993, at Juilliard School of Music, he conducted the Poulenc one-act operas ''La Voix Humaine'' and ''Les Mamelles de Tiresias''. Another project, begun in early 2001, was to record and edit for The Packard Humanities Institute scholarly editions of [[Victor Herbert]] and Jerome Kern musicals, but none of these albums has been released.<ref name=obit/> McGlinn left the project in 2002 and the future of the recordings remains in limbo.<ref>[http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/5347 Babes in Neverland: Peter Filichia's Diary on TheaterMania.com]</ref> His last project was to edit a new edition of the 1954 Broadway version of ''[[Peter Pan (1954 musical)|Peter Pan]]'' for Samuel French.<ref name=obit/>
 
McGlinn was found dead in his New York City apartment on February 14, 2009, of a heart attack. He was 55 years old.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |first= William|last= Grimes|authorlinkauthor-link=William Grimes (journalist)|coauthors= |title=John McGlinn, 55, Restorer of Musicals, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/arts/music/19mcglinn.html |quote=John McGlinn, a conductor and musical historian who delved deep into neglected archives to recreate musicals like 'Show Boat,' 'Anything Goes' and 'No, No, Nanette' in their original form, died on Saturday at home in Manhattan. He was 55. |work=[[New York Times]] |date=February 19, 2009 |accessdateaccess-date=2009-02-19 }}</ref><ref>[http://broadwayworld.com/article/John_McGlinn_Conductor_Musical_Archivist_Passes_Away_20010101 John McGlinn, Conductor & Musical Archivist Passes Away]</ref>▼
His last project was to edit a new edition of the 1954 Broadway version of ''[[Peter Pan (1954 musical)|Peter Pan]]'' for Samuel French.<ref name=obit/>
 
==Discography==
▲McGlinn was found dead in his New York City apartment on February 14, 2009, of a heart attack.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |first= William|last= Grimes|authorlink=William Grimes (journalist)|coauthors= |title=John McGlinn, 55, Restorer of Musicals, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/arts/music/19mcglinn.html |quote=John McGlinn, a conductor and musical historian who delved deep into neglected archives to recreate musicals like 'Show Boat,' 'Anything Goes' and 'No, No, Nanette' in their original form, died on Saturday at home in Manhattan. He was 55. |work=[[New York Times]] |date=February 19, 2009 |accessdate=2009-02-19 }}</ref><ref>[http://broadwayworld.com/article/John_McGlinn_Conductor_Musical_Archivist_Passes_Away_20010101 John McGlinn, Conductor & Musical Archivist Passes Away]</ref>
* [[Irving Berlin]]: ''Annie Get Your Gun'', EMI Records 54206, 1991
* [[George Gershwin]]: ''Kiri sings Gershwin'', EMI Records 47454, 1987
* George Gershwin: ''Gershwin Overtures'', EMI Records 47977, 1987
* [[Show Boat (John McGlinn recording)|Jerome Kern: ''Show Boat'', EMI Records 49108, 1988]]
* Jerome Kern: ''Jerome Kern Treasury'', EMI Records 54883, 1993
* Jerome Kern: ''Overtures and Music from Swing Time'', EMI 49630, 1989
* Jerome Kern: ''Sitting Pretty'', New World Records 80387, 1990
* [[Frederick Loewe]]: ''Brigadoon'', EMI Records 54481, 1992
* [[Anything Goes (John McGlinn recording)|Cole Porter: ''Anything Goes'', EMI Records 89442, 1989]]
* Cole Porter: ''Kiss Me, Kate'', EMI Records 54033, 1990
* Cole Porter: ''Night and Day - Thomas Hampson sings Cole Porter'', EMI Records 54203, 1991
* Cole Porter: ''Overtures and Ballet Music'', EMI Records 54300, 1991
* [[Richard Rodgers]]: ''My Funny Valentine - Frederica von Stade'', EMI Records 54071, 1990
* [[Harry Warren]]: ''The Busby Berkeley Album'', EMI Records 55189, 1994
* [[Kurt Weill]]: ''Kurt Weill on Broadway'', EMI Records 55563, 1996
* various: ''The Lorelei'' - Kim Criswell, EMI Records 54802, 1993
* various: ''Broadway Showstoppers'', EMI Records 54586, 1992
* various: ''Songs of New York'', Book-of-the-Month Club Records 417005, 1984
 
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==External links==
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