An outstanding portrait of Seiji Ozawa by Jerome De Perlinghi, 2001 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery In 2002 Ozawa became the principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera. Later that decade, though, & until his death in February 2024, illness very much slowed his conducting career.
Seiji Ozawa at his home on Park Road in Toronto, during his tenure as the conductor of the Toronto Symphony, October 1968. He was with the TSO from 1965-69. 📷 Norman James Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique youtube.com/watch?v=kOL7...
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Seiji Ozawa by Manuel Litran, Paris, 1983 Haruki Murakami says something wonderful in his introduction to his book with Ozawa: "It sets my mind at ease to know that there is someone like him in the world." We miss him very much 💔
On Seiji Ozawa's birthday I'm listening to his 1975 album of Janacek & Lutoslawski, with the Chicago Symphony. The wonderful cover photos are by Richard Rankin. album.link/y/OLAK5uy_l-...
Genius