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...addition to the "Challenge" project will be modified because PBH cannot afford more money for materials, according to Joseph N. P. Ozawa Jr. '67, coordinator of the program. The new volunteers will be asked to tutor boys individually once a week, Ozawa said, with each pair free to determine a course of study...
...Tanglewood concert Seiji Ozawa will conduct a program of Hindemith, Moussorgsky, and Strauss performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Ozawa, 27, is already a conductor honored in many lands, but not in his own. He left Japan four years ago, successively won first place (and 100,000 francs) in the Concours International de Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre, the Koussevitzky Memorial Scholarship for the best young conductor at Tanglewood, and a place at the side of Leonard Bernstein as an assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic...
...Germanic masters, who stylistically frown on conducting exertions more noticeable than an occasional swing of the index finger. The sight of the flailing young conductor reminded a critic of "a samurai warrior leading his men to battle." Soon the NHK ranks were brewing a mutiny. When the musicians said "Ozawa's full of air and showmanship, but little that's real art," he demanded apologies. Instead, he got fired. Refusing to believe his bad luck, Ozawa went to the concert hall anyway and, alone and forlorn, awaited his orchestra. It never turned...
...York has been willing to overlook his silhouette. The Philharmonic has signed Ozawa as an assistant conductor for a month-long tour of the U.S. Before heading for the Hollywood Bowl next month, he has a guest slot to fill conducting the orchestra of The Hague. In the fall, Ozawa will be one of the first guest conductors of the Montreal Symphony at the new Place des Arts. Before each concert he eats rice and Japanese vegetables, lest he lose weight and look even younger. "On your beefsteak I lose my appetite," he worries. "I would grow thinner...