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Ozawa

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[oh-zah-wuh] / oʊˈzɑ wə /

noun

  1. Seiji 1935–2024, Japanese conductor in the the United States, Canada, Japan, and Austria.


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“A musician’s special flavor comes out with age,” he said in “Absolutely on Music,” a 2016 book of conversations between Mr. Ozawa and the novelist Haruki Murakami.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Ozawa was also the artistic director and founder of the Saito Kinen Festival, Japan’s music and opera festival.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

This spawned the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto in 1992; the event was renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in 2015.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Ozawa died on Tuesday at his Tokyo home, according to his management office, Veroza Japan.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

The illustrations and cover-stamp, though engraved in New York by Mr. Henry W. Troy, were, with one exception, drawn especially for this work, by my artist-friend, Ozawa Nankoku, of Tokio.

From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa