Absolutely on music :

Ozawa, Seiji, 1935-

Absolutely on music : conversations / Haruki Murakami with Seiji Ozawa ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. - First Vintage International edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2016. - xx, 293 pages ; 21 cm.

Translated from the Japanese. Reprint. English translation originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. "Originally published in Japan as Ozawa Seiji-san to, ongaku ni tsuite hanashi o suru by Shinchosa, Tokyo, in 2011"--Title page verso.

Mostly on the Beethoven Third piano concerto -- On manic record collectors -- Brahms at Carnegie Hall -- The relationship of writing to music -- What happened in the 1960s -- Eugene Ormandy's baton -- On the music of Gustav Mahler -- From Chicago blues to Shin'ichi Mori -- The joys of opera -- In a little Swiss town -- "There's no single way to teach. You make it up as you go along."

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Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- --Interviews.


Conductors (Music)--Interviews.
Music--History and criticism.

ML 422.O9 / .M9 2016