Tom Walters: Remembering Seiji Ozawa

I first saw him conducting the Toronto Symphony. He was absolutely memorizing on the podium, his movements as graceful as a dancer but every bit as precise and declarative as one would expect of a world-class conductor. Seiji Ozawa died Feb. 8 in Tokyo. His stature as one of the greats straddling the turn of the century... read full story

"Ozawa exerted enormous influence over the BSO during his tenure. He appointed 74 of its 104 musicians and his celebrity attracted famous performers including Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman,"