Word: seiji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LISZT: CONCERTOS NOS. 1 AND 2; TOTENTANZ (DG). Pianistic fireworks from Poland's Krystian Zimerman, abetted by Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony. Tops: the underrated Totentanz (Dance of Death), a performance sure to rattle a few skeletons...
LISZT: CONCERTOS NOS. 1 AND 2; TOTENTANZ (DG). Pianistic fireworks from Poland's Krystian Zimerman, abetted by Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony. Tops: the underrated Totentanz (Dance of Death), a performance sure to rattle a few skeletons...
...Japanese call it kinken-seiji, or money politics -- the widespread if sleazy practice in which businessmen curry favor with politicians by giving them insider stock tips or cozy deals. Last week the biggest such scandal in years rocked Japan after the daily Asahi Shimbun disclosed a list of 76 political staffers, journalists and others who allegedly earned millions of dollars investing in the stock of a fast-growing real estate company called Recruit Cosmos. On the list were top members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.), including aides to both Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and his predecessor, Yasuhiro Nakasone...
...Seiji Ozawa of the Boston Symphony is at the top of his profession. Yet the Japanese conductor remains a man of two worlds...
...terrace overlooking Lake Fuschl near Salzburg, Seiji Ozawa and Yo-Yo Ma are deep in conversation. "Remember that discussion about whether an Oriental can do Western music?" asks the Japanese conductor in heavily accented English. Ma does. "Music can be learned, really, by anybody who cares to know it well enough and deeply enough," says the cellist, who is of Chinese parentage but as American as a baseball...