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wtg
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posted 09 February 2024 08:21 PM
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Seiji Ozawa, the conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra longer than any other music director, has died at age 88.

The conductor died Feb. 6 in Tokyo due to heart failure, according to a spokesperson for the Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland.


https://www.npr.org/sections/d...rchestra-dies-age-88


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posted 09 February 2024 08:55 PMHide Post
My favorite Seiji Ozawa recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsFRwT03V8


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posted 10 February 2024 12:43 PMHide Post
Have a favorite DVD of Ozawa conducting Rhapsody in Blue in a park in Berlin.
There are three jazz musicians with them, including a Marsalis and a solo bit of a woman "getting down" with a baritone sax.


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posted 12 February 2024 06:47 PMHide Post
One of the first records (yeah, I'm old) I ever bought was Ozawa conducting the BSO - Bernstein's Symphonic from West Side Story (DGG).

I thought he was *so cool*. I had a crush on him. Up until that time the conductors of major orchestras that I saw on TV were all old geezers. He was also an incredible conductor.
 
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