Seiji Ozawa, the shaggy-haired, high-voltage Japanese maestro who served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for almost 30 years and was among the first Asian conductors to win world renown leading a classical orchestra, died Feb. 6 at his home in Tokyo. He was 88.
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Seiji Ozawa, groundbreaking Japanese conductor, dies at 88
In the 1970s, at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his studiously hip, turtle-necked, love-beaded image made him seem a new sort of music director for a new age
By Tim Page
Updated February 9, 2024 at 8:59 a.m. EST|Published February 9, 2024 at 6:47 a.m. EST