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...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...
...tomb of the unconscious," but what occurred onstage was a fairly standard day in the death of the House of Atreus. The real pleasures of the production were the whiplash performance of Soprano Hildegard Behrens in the title role and the gloriously haunted Klytemnestra of Mezzo Christa Ludwig. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, leading his first Elektra, sought out the brutal score's elusive lyric elements and found most of them...
...sampling of recent events largely bears out that judgment, even if it is still too early to tell how the hall ultimately will turn out. The Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, which performed Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony * during opening week, bloomed in the new environment, but the Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti sounded harsh and edgy in Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. Bass Samuel Ramey effortlessly reached the far edges of the balcony in his triumphant January recital, but it took several minutes before Warren Jones, his accompanist, adjusted his touch in order to project each melodic strand cleanly...