Word: ozawa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Occasionally, and with great delight, Duffy ventures out to cover a music or dance story herself. Last March she accompanied Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony on their historic tour of China. "It was fascinating to see musicians there attempt to recover after the Gang of Four's efforts to dismantle Chinese culture," she says. "Instruments are few, scores even fewer, but there is no dearth of enthusiasm. In Shanghai, we watched a rehearsal of Swan Lake in a room so cold we could see our breath. The dancers, however, took no notice of the chill. They were simply...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, Seiji Ozawa, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Harry Ellis Dickson gave spoken tributes...
...Many, many people became music lovers because of Arthur Fiedler. In Europe and Asia too. He was really a genius, making a very special tie between people and music. We were great friends ...he was like a father to me," said Ozawa, who broke down while giving the tribute...
...joint concert was held in the 18,000-seat Capital Stadium. Ozawa was in ebullient humor and under no illusions about producing musical ecstasy in such a setting. Said he: "It's like swimming in the ocean after you have been swimming at the Y." The audience was in a jolly, responsive mood. Cellist Martin Hoherman brought down the house during an encore by playing a few phrases on the banhu, a Chinese instrument with two parallel strings, played by bowing between them. Hoherman was glad when his chore was over: "That technique is like drilling. A dentist should...
...last number was The Stars and Stripes Forever, and that seemed just fine with the Chinese. Then Ozawa circled the oval floor along with his mother and an ever growing parade of musicians. Next morning almost the whole Peking Philharmonic showed up at the airport to say goodbye with gifts and mementos. Several private farewells ended in tears. Ozawa led his troops onto the 747. The final glimpse of the Americans must have made the Peking players smile. Pan Am printed the name CHINA CLIPPER on the sides in Chinese characters but, language misunderstandings being what they are, the sign...