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Seiji Ozawa, who served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for almost 30 years and was widely considered the first Asian conductor to win world renown leading a classical orchestra, died Feb. 6 at his home in Tokyo.
Seiji Ozawa, groundbreaking Japanese conductor, dies at 88
In the 1970s, at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his studiously hip, turtle-necked, love-beaded image made him seem a new sort of music director for a new age.
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February 9, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Seiji Ozawa, who served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for almost 30 years and was widely considered the first Asian conductor to win world renown leading a classical orchestra, died Feb. 6 at his home in Tokyo.