Word: seiji
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...canvas, comes from London's National Gallery and was painted in August 1888 as part of Van Gogh's preparations for Gauguin's arrival at the Yellow House in Arles, where the Dutch painter hoped to create an artists' commune. The second Sunflowers, on loan from the Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art in Tokyo, was painted a few months later on a piece of a bolt of burlap bought for Arles by Gauguin. It is curiously muted and its authenticity has been questioned, but extensive research in preparation for this exhibition indicates that the picture is indeed...
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...
...even if Mori is somehow bundled off stage, there is still a problem with the last act. Who would succeed him? The LDP sorely lacks a powerful shogun like the late Noburu Takeshita who not only served as Prime Minister but was a master at misshitsu seiji, the behind-the-screen politics of grooming new leaders and smoothing over intra-party squabbles...
...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...