Japan’s Seiji Ozawa, one of world’s best-known conductors, dead at 88
JAPAN'S Seiji Ozawa, one of the best-known orchestra conductors of his generation, died of heart failure at the age of 88, public broadcaster NHK announced. Ozawa, who was born in China, spent decades in the rarefied atmosphere of top orchestras around the world but wore baseball-themed ties to interviews and preferred to be called by his first name, not "maestro". His bushy hair and smile charmed audiences, especially in the United States, where his tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra spanned nearly three decades. In 2020, Boston proclaimed his birthday, September 1, "Seiji Ozawa Day", prompting a…
