I vividly remember seeing Seiji Ozawa conduct a number of years ago at Tanglewood in Massachusetts. It was visually artistic as well as musicially artisitic. I thought Ozawa had incredible passion and humanity. His performances were not aways flawless which, to me, made him a magnificent artist. His was so technically subperb yet imbued every performance with thought and a quest for meaning. Music is that expression of the soul's journey for meaing. It uses an abstact language which is universal and communicates on a non-verbal level. Ozawa understands that and grapples with it in each piece he conducts. There is a good article about Ozawa on the NPR site. It's attached beyow. http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/features/2002/ozawa/

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ty you. i would like to say how much i love how he is but i cannot . it would be big. we got lucky he retire for vienna. oh i get choked . i wish everyone can live forever. as for your numbers you might missed one no highlight christine. but people should do the searches he is so good. one of best record of carmina burana ( orff) many recording but if they can see him they will die. on the dvd. k

Hi Christin-- Another short one because it's all the time i have today...will avoid caps ...(the usual) too..a shortcut ive gotten into yet not kwite into texting so much yet...almost..but not kwite. Mr Ozawa had a wonderful principal second violin-- Mary Lou Speaker-- who retired not so much before his leaving...I believe ...He left in 2002...I was there..It was six years ago...67...Mr Spielberg and Mr Williams set up a Sat night party..(sory if any spel not rite)...btw do you know that in first or second grade I used to write "he" when i thought "it"..still do it...funny one ..the brain...but anyway...he depended on her accompanying so much...which is the job of the seconds...but she was just a few feet from the podium...people forget abot the seconds sometimes but they are there.. The party was for the whole shed and people on the lawn too...at Tanglewood ..It was a record weekend going into even Monday night..although his last concert was the traditional Sunday aft. with Peter Serkin and Beethoven Choral Fantasy for one piece. I played this piece with my boyfriend when I was 19...not supposed to because it was too soon for real concerto type of work but we did it at our college..pick up players and he conducted...good college chorus and some good soloists...for a 19 year old 1200 people coming in was a lot...and two technical difficulties in that short piece are the running octaves at the end..( with third) as intervaled with the chorus and orchestra statements...very exciting..slow mvt. has long trills...another endurance test but somehow when you dont know how difficult it it you dont know....which was Ozawa's statement on the screen that night. In the boxes ...where I was sitting on a dark day ( Monday) about a month ago ...I thought i could still feel this aura...of Mr Ozawa sitting shyly with his wife and two children...maybe just one ...his daughter..I remember her grown up so beautiful in kimono...and it reminded me of my time for comfort with Japanese boyfriend...later married...no longer living... Life is short and physical discipline important for the athlete which Ozawa showed is important...one of many things he showed all of us...He also showed there is no age from his ancient culture... no age except respect for the very aged.....it makes your own life longer...His mother was there but not at night I dont think...earlier in the day.before..( in her nineties sitting in the front for rehearsal)...He said...my mother say to me ...Seiji you such a small boy so weak....so tiny ..i never think you grow up get stronger ....adorable.... Full circle I was sitting with some people on Friday night...( they were sharing their fresh fruit with me at a picnic table)....a month ago....a very well known opera buff...discussing many events of late and also animatedly telling me of his trips to La Scala...B.C. ...as he called it..."before Claire" his wife...so cute...then all the many trips of the last 50 years.....to hear the greats.....Tibaldi...Callas....etc etc....They were from NYC..but now in Lenox...the "ghosts"float around and they are beautiful....all of the delicate phrasing is stll there in the orchestra Christine...I need to take you back....Unfortunately our tenting ground...is full of trees now....ha ha....but swimming area for the fellows still there...with squeaky door bathroom no showers....(use the lake)...now they are kids and I am not....or am I ? Phylis Curtin is 86....so so nice....treat me like a kid ...liked that....heh heh...thinks in the present and future....open master classes to all people during the week to watch...but stay behind the line..Fellows in the front...pleasant memories of only a month ago...I took my friend...He had not been there in that way before...but had passed throug in the seventies...as a visitor.... Ozawa Hall is beautiful....acoustically and visually....the vocal fellows and pianists...now get to do their recitals there...lucky dogs....LOL....and now people have to pay 11.00 instead of nothing...ha ha....just some pleasant thoughts for your weekend....the history of discipline brings such later life pleasure...oh so much....everybody's story is different...I am the only so far who knows you play beautifully in beautiful concert hall....I have heard it...but we save it....in your heart for now... Georgeann M. Peterson (no edit--straight from the heart)

hi christine (its ok if your buzy for answer) its kiki from vienna austria remember me. i am hope i get see mr seiji ozawa my fave of all faves when he dances/conducts/ sometimes he even kina sings (no words) you can hear him he's so nice and so cute and so smart more than most people in this world. bye later kiki

a lot of the winter program of the BSO is done in the summer,,..well ..at least some of it...hence more opera presently ..however..nov 28,29...it says mr ozawa conducted Symphonie fantastique (Berlioz..z i pronounced)..breathtakingly subtle on the programme..ad. a man who shaped lives of many ..for 30 years at the BSO's summer home..and so humble. the bso takes the christmas season off and gives it to the POPS...in similar fashion at twd...there is a week or so...where there are several pops events..bring the kids and the popcorn type deal...a little more so than the candlit tables on the blankets...its more of a bring your lavender blankie...he he... ozawa knows when to study. we're all in awe...forever...