Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. This is Jordan Ridge. Just a few
weeks ago, celebrated musician and conductor Segi Ozawa passed away, an artist who
made his mark around the world, but particularly here in Boston as the long
running conductor of the BSO. SO here's a book to look at at this
time, Sagi Ozawa, A Maestro's Legacy in Classical Music, by Brian White.
Seiji Ozawa was born to Japanese parents in China and was a musical prodigy,
winning a conductor's competition in nineteen fifty nine and never looking back. He
studied under greats such as Charles Munch and Leonard Bernstein, who picked Saigy to
serve as his assistant conductor with the New York Philharmonic in the early nineteen sixties.
Ozawa led symphony orchestras in Toronto, San Francisco and ultimately the Boston Symphony
Orchestra beginning in nineteen seventy three for twenty nine years, and he was a
man of many firsts, taking the BSO to China in nineteen seventy nine,
developing Tanglewood as an educational center, and cutting a very unique figure on the
conductor's podium. Segi Ozawa a meestro's legacy in Classical music, by Brian White,
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