Absolutely on music : conversations / Haruki Murakami with Seiji Ozawa ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ozawa, Seiji, 1935-2024, author.

Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Rubin, Jay, 1941- translator.

Standardized Title:

Ozawa Seiji-san to, ongaku ni tsuite hanashi o suru. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Ozawa, Seiji, 1935-2024--Interviews.

Ozawa, Seiji.

Ozawa, Seiji, 1935-2024.

Conductors (Music)--Interviews.

Conductors (Music).

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Genre:

Interviews.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 325 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First United States edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Summary:

An intimate conversation about music and writing illuminates the perspectives and shared interests of the internationally acclaimed author of "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Internationally acclaimed, best-selling author Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music. Over the course of two years, Murakami and Ozawa discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from Bartok to Mahler, and from popup orchestras to opera. They listen to and dissect recordings of some of their favorite performances, and Murakami questions Ozawa about his career conducting orchestras around the world. Culminating in Murakami's ten-day visit to the banks of Lake Geneva to observe Ozawa's retreat for young musicians, the book is interspersed with ruminations on record collecting, jazz clubs, orchestra halls, film scores, and much more. A deep reflection on the essential nature of both music and writing, this book is an unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.--F rom dust jacket.

Contents:

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."

Notes:

Translated from the Japanese.

Originally published in Japan as Ozawa Seiji-san to, ongaku ni tsuite hanashi o suru by Shinchosa, Tokyo, in 2011.

Other Format:

Online version: Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- Absolutely on music

ISBN:

9780385354349

0385354347

9780804173728

0804173729

OCLC:

940796415