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...final appearances at Symphony Hall as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), Seiji Ozawa showed why he will be sorely missed when he departs for the Vienna State Opera next season. Ozawa conducted that great farewell symphony, Mahler??s Ninth, with a degree of sensitivity that affirmed his stature as one of the great conductors of our time...
...Mahler??s Ninth Symphony, written in 1909, is ultimately about farewell, as the work makes repeated use of a two-note falling motive, first used in the last movement of Das Lied von der Erde, which Mahler extends to form a three-note quotation from Beethoven’s Les Adieux piano sonata. These motivic constructions permeate every movement of the piece. Leonard Bernstein, in his 1973 Norton lectures here at Harvard, defined the symphony as a farewell to life, tonality and “our Faustian society.” There was no doubt, however, that...
...Mahler??s Ninth Symphony served as a moving and fitting end to Ozawa’s long and distinguished tenure here in Boston. It was impossible not to be swept up in the moment. As elated, teary-eyed patrons made their way out of Symphony Hall, it became quite obvious just how much Ozawa has meant to all who have had the privilege of hearing him conduct the BSO. Ozawa will appear for three more concerts with the BSO at Tanglewood from July 12-14 before leaving for Vienna. Music Director-designate James Levine, who has already been...