Seiji Ozawa, a Captivating, Transformative Conductor, Dies at 88

Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 1997. He led the ensemble for 29 years.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Seiji Ozawa, the high-spirited Japanese conductor who took the Western classical music world by storm in the 1960s and ’70s and then led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for almost 30 years, died on Tuesday at his home in Tokyo. He was 88. The cause

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NYタイムズ小澤征爾追悼記事。読者コメントが228も寄せられて閉鎖された。SF響時代のオザワの記憶を語る人が驚くほど多い！無名時代にそれくらい衝撃を与える存在でなければ、続くボストン時代もなかっただろう。