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Brendel, 70, one of the world’s foremost Beethoven specialists, was in town for six concerts with the BSO and conductor Seiji Ozawa, featuring all five Beethoven piano concertos. After feeling pain in his arm, he cancelled the concerts scheduled for Saturday and last night and flew back to Munich to meet with his physician...
...This is a wonderful, intelligent musician,” Ozawa told the Globe. “You know, I have never before conducted a soloist who improvises his own cadenzas—I wasn’t sure when he was going to end, so I just watched him very closely! It is very enjoyable to work with someone whose mind is so clear...
...Tokyo, he enhanced his reputation as a calculating dealmaker. His critics describe him as Machiavellian, willing to break bread with anyone if it furthers his cause. In 1998, when Obuchi was having trouble holding together a fragile multi-party coalition, Nonaka approached an arch-enemy, Ichiro Ozawa, whose defection from the LDP in 1993 ushered the party out of power for the only time since its inception in 1955. Nonaka had called Ozawa a "devil" for that insult. But he went to Ozawa, hat in hand, and persuaded him to rejoin Obuchi's coalition. Once the relationship was cemented...
...Seiji Ozawa conducted with fierce precision and tackled the diabolically difficult fugue with great skill. The BSO strings responded with a nearly flawless performance, and concertmaster Malcolm Lowe had many fine solo moments. At the end, the 62-year-old leather-jacketed Corigliano emerged onto the stage, and was called back several times. On the second half of the concert, Krystian Zimerman gave an excellent performance of the warhorse of all warhorses, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto no. 2. (Actually, the inclusion of this piece was surprising, given that the concert calendar had clearly indicated that the third concerto...
Other recipients included architect Frank O. Gehry, Intel Corporation co-founder Andrew S. Grove, attorney Judith R. Hope, philantropist Katherine B. Loker, biologist Maclyn McCarty, civil rights leader and judge Constance Baker Motley, author Kenzaburo Oe, symphony director Seiji Ozawa, liguistics professor Noam Chomsky and physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen...