Saturday, November 19, 2005
BOSTON (AP) -- Next summer at Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa will return to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's podium for the first time since stepping down in 2002.
Ozawa will conduct an Aug. 5 performance of one of his signature pieces -- Mahler's Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" -- with John Oliver conducting the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
"It's a big work. It's full of contrast, it's really a complete musical experience," Anthony Fogg, the symphony's artistic administrator, said of the 85-minute symphony for soloists, chorus and orchestra.
Ozawa, 70, the BSO's music director laureate, is music director of the Vienna State Opera.
He was music director in Boston for 29 years, succeeded by James Levine.