Absolutely on Music. Conversations by Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered 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 Bartók to Mahler, and from pop-up 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, Absolutely on Music is an unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction: My Afternoons with Seiji Ozawa

- First Conversation
Mostly on the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto

- Interlude 1: On Manic Record Collector

- Second Conversation
Brahms at Carnegie Hall

- Interlude 2: The Relationship of Writing to Music

- Third Conversation: What Happened in the 1960s

- Interlude 3: Eugene Ormandy's Baton

- Fourth Conversation: On the Music of Gustav Mahler

- Interlude 4: From Chicago Blues to Shin'ichi Mori

- Fifth Conversation
The Joys of Opera
In a Little Swiss Town

- Sixth Conversation
"There's No Single Way to Teach. You Make It Up as You Go Along"

Afterword by Siji Ozawa