ENTERTAINMENT
December 31, 2001 | FRAZIER MOORE, ASSOCIATED PRESS
For most of his long life, Walter Cronkite wasn't big on celebrating New Year's. "This hype that New Year's Eve has always had--I could never quite get on board with it," the veteran newsman was saying last week. "You get all set up for that big party, and then it's kind of a disappointment." He paused a moment, thinking back in amusement. "You know, up to the time I was 10, Halloween was the same way," he said. "You planned all these naughty tricks, and then it kind of fell apart."
ENTERTAINMENT
August 31, 2001 | RONALD BLUM, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Around the music world, it's a season of farewells. Seiji Ozawa is leaving the Boston Symphony Orchestra next spring after more than a quarter-century as its head, Christoph von Dohnanyi is saying goodbye to the Cleveland Orchestra and Kurt Masur to the New York Philharmonic, all part of a gigantic shift in leadership at four of the traditional Big Five orchestras in the United States. Wolfgang Sawallisch departs the Philadelphia Orchestra after the 2002-03 season.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 10, 2001 | MARK SWED, TIMES MUSIC CRITIC
Seiji Ozawa has been music director of the venerable Boston Symphony Orchestra for a record 28 years. After next season he moves on to head the Vienna State Opera. He was once short-listed for the post of music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. He is, in other words, one of the half-dozen most prominent conductors on the scene today.
NEWS
May 7, 2000 | JASON STRAZIUSO, ASSOCIATED PRESS
After ushering in the millennium with a sparkling feast for the eyes, the Eiffel Tower continued the party Friday with a treat for the ears--an extravaganza concert of classical favorites with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tens of thousands of Parisians spread over the Champs de Mars, lounging on picnic blankets, sipping wine and watching the musicians on stage under the famed tower, gently lit for the occasion.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 9, 2000 | VALERIE REITMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Can passion be taught? Conductor Seiji Ozawa is trying to find out with a novel program in his homeland aimed at drawing young Japanese musicians out of their shells. He is trying to instill emotion in their performance of Western classical music by inspiration, or at least osmosis, using the gusto of opera. Ozawa, the music director of the Boston Symphony, has set up an institute to teach young musicians to play Mozart's great operas.
TRAVEL
April 20, 1997
Concerning your splendid article on Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. ("Where Music's in the Air," March 16) in Traveling in Style magazine, I would like to say there is a way to enjoy a concert at Tanglewood without making reservations. On the afternoon before a concert, the conductor holds a dress rehearsal, and the public may attend for a greatly reduced price. The last time I attended, my family and I picnicked right in the music shed, out of the sun. During the playing of Mahler's Third Symphony, Seiji Ozawa, the music director, interrupted the flow of music perhaps twice; otherwise, it was exactly as was to be heard that night.