Ozawa

American  

[oh-zah-wuh] / oʊˈzɑ wə /

noun

1. Seiji 1935–2024, Japanese conductor in the the United States, Canada, Japan, and Austria.

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Example Sentences

The “Monkey King” premiere took place the day after the final performance of Matthew Ozawa’s thoughtful new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal,” a very different tale about ignorance and enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal

Part of this white supremacist racial project involves making “whiteness” a prerequisite for citizenship and national belonging as established by the Supreme Court in the infamous Ozawa and Thind cases.

From Salon

Lives lived: Seiji Ozawa, a high-spirited Japanese conductor who directed the Boston Symphony Orchestra for decades, died at 88.

From New York Times

Seiji Ozawa, the eminent Japanese conductor whose death, at 88, was announced on Friday, was a force at the podium.

From New York Times

When Ozawa conducted the Boston orchestra in 2006 for the first time since he left four years before, he received a hero’s welcome with a nearly six-minute ovation.

From Seattle Times