RIP Seiji Ozawa

[George K]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/music/seiji-ozawa-dead.html

Seiji Ozawa, the high-spirited Japanese conductor who took the Western classical music world by storm in the 1960s and ’70s and then led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for almost 30 years, died on Tuesday at his home in Tokyo. He was 88.

The cause was heart failure, according to an announcement released on Friday by Veroza, his management office.

Mr. Ozawa had experienced years of health problems beginning in early 2010, when he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He never fully rebounded from cancer surgery or from back problems that were made worse during his recovery, and he was hospitalized with heart valve disease later in life.

14 year survival with esophageal cancer?

Wow.

[kluurs]

WOw is right. I always assumed that if I were diagnosed with that, I wouldn't buy green bananas.

[Axtremus]

My favorite Seiji Ozawa recording:

Link to video

The title of the work is "Little Sisters of the Grassland," a concerto for pipa and orchestra, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony in collaboration with soloist Liu DeHai.

[kluurs]

My favorite Ozawa recording is of the Khachaturian Piano Concerto with Philip Entremont - sonics and performance are excellent.

[Renauda]

R.I.P. Maestro.

[Axtremus]

@kluurs said in RIP Seiji Ozawa:

My favorite Ozawa recording is of the Khachaturian Piano Concerto with Philip Entremont

This one?

Link to video

[kluurs]

Yes