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...This has been a surprise. When Okada became party president less than three months ago, the DPJ was in turmoil. Its two most senior members, Naoto Kan and Ichiro Ozawa, had succumbed to a far-reaching pension scandal that forced them to resign their leadership posts. With only weeks to go before the election, the nation's largest opposition party seemed rudderless and lacking a message. Political pundits predicted a thumping defeat at the hands of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's near-hegemonic Liberal Demo-cratic Party (LDP), which has had a nearly uninterrupted hold on power for almost...
Last summer, Office for the Arts director Jack Megan attended the farewell performance of Seiji Ozawa, the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in an outdoor concert at Tanglewood, where the Boys Choir was performing...
Megan says that Ozawa was so inspired that he stopped conducting and started to dance...
...just very moved by their sound and their youth,” Megan said. “It is telling that Ozawa, after performing for 30 years, would pick this choir for his final performance...
...Seiji Ozawa, Conductor