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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
This is Jordan Ridge. Just a few

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weeks ago, celebrated musician and conductor
Segi Ozawa passed away, an artist who

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made his mark around the world,
but particularly here in Boston as the long

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running conductor of the BSO. SO
here's a book to look at at this

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time, Sagi Ozawa, A Maestro's
Legacy in Classical Music, by Brian White.

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Seiji Ozawa was born to Japanese parents
in China and was a musical prodigy,

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winning a conductor's competition in nineteen fifty
nine and never looking back. He

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studied under greats such as Charles Munch
and Leonard Bernstein, who picked Saigy to

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serve as his assistant conductor with the
New York Philharmonic in the early nineteen sixties.

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Ozawa led symphony orchestras in Toronto,
San Francisco and ultimately the Boston Symphony

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Orchestra beginning in nineteen seventy three for
twenty nine years, and he was a

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man of many firsts, taking the
BSO to China in nineteen seventy nine,

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developing Tanglewood as an educational center,
and cutting a very unique figure on the

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conductor's podium. Segi Ozawa a meestro's
legacy in Classical music, by Brian White,

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