Seiji: An Intimate Portrait of Seiji Ozawa - Hardcover

Russell, Lincoln

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395939437 ISBN 13: 9780395939437

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998

Synopsis

A tribute in pictures and words of praise captures the twenty-five-year association of Maestro Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, celebrating his intensity on and off the stage, his charisma, and his love of music. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline Smedvig has worked with Seiji Ozawa and the BSO for nearly twenty years.

From Booklist:

Boston's foremost publisher presents a public valentine to a hometown pride-and-joy, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Seiji Ozawa, who has been at that post for 25 years. Mostly, it is a book full of photographs taken by Lincoln Russell over the course of Ozawa's career in Boston and throughout the world, which the BSO has toured extensively under his baton. The lean but round-faced Japanese musician is photogenic to the nth degree and, like many another conductor, anything but camera-shy. Naturally expressive, he doesn't have to mug to grab attention, and he isn't overly modest, either--hence the shots of him with his acupuncturist and in the hot tub of his home in Matsumoto, Japan. The text complementing these marvelous celebrity photos begins with laudatory forewords by compiler Smedvig (the BSO's PR director), BSO music president Nicholas T. Servas, and Boston Pops conductor and film music composer John Williams. Scattered among the pictures are remarks by Ozawa's friends and associates--the likes of Mstislav Rostropovich, Jessye Norman, Peter Serkin, Andre Previn, New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft, and Nobel literary laureate Kenzaburo Oe. Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0395939437
• ISBN 13: 9780395939437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 114
• Editor: Russell Lincoln, Smedvig Caroline
• Illustrator: Russell Lincoln