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Seiji Ozawa (小澤 征爾, Ozawa Seiji; September 1, 1935 – February 6, 2024) was a Japanese conductor known internationally for his work as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), where he served from 1973 for 29 years.
his Evening at Symphony was broadcast on PBS, which is one reason that PBS should include government funding, at least for cultural programs.
Here is an article on the UKGuardian with an excerpt of a book where Ozawa discusses classical music with Japanese writer Haruki Murakami
it includes a discussion of Mahler's music and the culture that inspired Mahler. I can't excerpt it because it is a bit technical, but if you like Mahler it is interesting because it points out the culture of music evolving (devolving?) in Vienna at those times and how various folk music etc. are embedded in his music.
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the ClassicReview discusses Mahler's Symphony No. 9: an ode to sorrow: at a time when he was mourning the death of a daughter and facing his own mortality. And the review explains the movements on how this was structured: again too long to excerpt but read the whole thing.
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the symphony as played by Ozawa
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