To honor Seiji Ozawa, its music director laureate, the Boston Symphony Orchestra offered a spoken and musical tribute at the start of its performance on Friday afternoon, January 9. BSO President and CEO Chad Smith offered remarks, and guest conductor Karina Canellakis led the BSO in Bach’s Air on the G String (from the Orchestral Suite No. 3), a work that had personal significance and history for Ozawa.
Video courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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The silence after this performance says everything. You will be missed.
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I grew up near San Francisco and heard him conduct the SFSO as I was becoming a young musician. The memory of a truly great performance of Mozart's Ave verum corpus and Betthoven's Symphony #9 stay with me to this day, some 50 years later. Thank you, maestro.
So touched by this beautiful music. RIP. 御冥福をお祈りします。
I saw Ozawa when I was in college in San Francisco at his conductorial debut as an usher at the opera house, from my college theatre class!! I was also fortunate to see Van Cliburn, Dame Margot dancing with Rudolph Nureyev and many others! A real blessing for a kid from a tiny little town on the California Central Coast!!!
Bravi
RIP Seiji Ozawa. When people hear his name, they think of Boston. But when I hear his name, I think of San Francisco. In 1970, the Lowell High School Orchestra, in San Frncisco held a fund-raising concert in the San Francisco Opera House. Besides Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, Copland’s Outdoor Overture, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, all conducted by our teacher, John Pereira, Mr. Ozawa took time out of his busy international schedule to rehearse us and then lead us in concert in Debussey’s Afternoon of a Faun and Bernstein’s Candide Overture. So not only did he help us realise our dream of traveling to Japan to represent San Francisco at the Expo ′70 in Osaka, but he also inspired us all in our future lives – many of us, including myself, went on to be professional musicians ourselves and having played under his baton and leadership was … inspiring. Thank you Mr. Ozawa!
RIP, beloved Maestro! ❤😂🎉❤❤
TONIGHT I WILL HAVE A PLATE OF PASTA CON BROCCOLI RABE SICILIAN STYLE IN HONOR OF THIS GREAT MAESTRO
What a beautiful performance. So moving. Thank you BSO. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
As a kid at Tanglwood once our (viola) section wasn’t well prepared to rehearse w/ Maestro Ozawa. He “excused” the whole section to go figure it out. So embarrassing – and endearing. Never forgot that lesson!! RIP to a Giant.
Thanks to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and beautiful tribute to Seeji Ozawa The world 🌎🌎🌎 has lost a Titan in classical music 😭😭😭. Bachs Air on the G String lovely tribute Rest in ✌️✌️✌️ Hes conducting the largest orchestra in heaven
ありがとうございます！
My soul is filled with an ineffable sorrow
This is a beautiful tribute. I only had the privilege to hear Ozawa conduct in person once, with the Saito Kinen Orchestra playing Mahler's Second Symphony in Chicago. One of the best performances I have ever experienced. Thank you maestro. RIP.
Un japonés brillante.
Such a fitting tribute to a brilliant conductor.
Hopefully he had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
We named our dog after him!
I remember hearing him conduct the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique in 1969 at Western University with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a marvelous performance. This work seemed to be a central feature in his personal repertoire, and the recording which he made at that time remains an emotional rendering of the masterpiece. He was an unforgettable interpreter of great music.
R.I.P. Great Maestro 😢
May the talented maestro, Rest In Peace
演奏終了後の黙祷で彼がどれほど愛されていたか、彼ほど行ったことがどれほどの深い悲しみなのかを感じました。
多分、そんなに悲しまなくてもいいよ、僕の音楽はずっと生きているから…そんなこと言ってるような気がしました。
地元に新日フィルとの演奏会で何度か来ていだだき、バッハのアリアをアンコールで演奏していただきました。
指揮台に立たずに、バイオリンセクションの方たちの間を見守るよう歩いて、時折演奏してる方の肩に触れたりもされてました。
あの時ほどの美しい音は聴いたことがありません。ずっと忘れられない宝物のような思い出です。
❤❤ rest well beloved ♥️ 💜 A LEGEND A HERO YOU HAVE TRADED MORTAL WITH IMMORTALITY ❤❤❤ GREET BACH😂
May be at present in heaven Bach welcomes Ozawa with much love ❤and heavenly 🎶 music 🎵
Grandissima commozione! ❤ L' ho conosciuto tramite un libro intervista: è stato un enorme insegnamento per me! Era una persona umilissima e nello stesso tempo musicista grandioso: per questo sarà sempre nel cuore delle persone che lo hanno conosciuto. Grazie Maestro! Possa tu fare Musica divina in cielo! 🎶🎶🙏🙏
涙が出る様なお別れのメッセージと演奏をありがとうございます。
小澤征爾は音楽を愛する全ての人々の心の中に永遠に生き続けるでしょう。
R. I. P. A gentle musical maestro.
God bless him and his spirit!
I was there. It was so profound and so very touching. Rest well, Maestro.
I will treasure Seiji Ozawa always. My condolences to the city of Boston and the orchestra and his family and the classical performing world.
As always, the music of JS Bach the perfect expression of gratitude and loss. RIP Maestro.
Travel well maestro.
We will meet again.
Thank you for everything.
次代を担う素晴らしいカリーナ カネラキスの指揮で終わることなく永遠に続くかのようなバッハ、寂しさが募ります、半世紀以上小澤征爾を聴いてきました、
Thank you Maestro!
Rest in pace…
I was a season ticket holder for the SF symphony during the Ozawa era. He was an innovator. He loved to play the modern composers works even tho the critics played hard into him. There was nothing greater than the members of the orchestra would tap their bows and stomp their feet after a performance to tell the critics to shout their mouths. I remember when he played the toy piano for a Nicolas Cage piece
Thank you for the wonderful funeral peformance stage. I am performing Air Bach now, and praying for Seiji Ozawa.
御冥福をお祈り申しあげます。Thank you very much for fantastic classic music.