ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/2/29日(木)-放送中止？？小澤征爾さん死去

ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/2/29日(木)-放送中止？？小澤征爾さん死去
MAESTRO OZAWA SEIJI DIES AT 88
Maestro Ozawa Seiji dies at 88
2024年2月9日のニュース

We begin with sad news about a world-renowned maestro. Ozawa Seiji has died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo. He was 88.
Ozawa was born in 1935 in northeastern China, then called Manchuria. He began to play the piano as an elementary school student. Later, he entered the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and learned conducting. In his 20s, he studied under two legendary conductors, Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein.
Ozawa served as the musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 29 years. He also assumed the same position at the Vienna State Opera. Across the decades, he continued to conduct for renowned orchestras worldwide.
Ozawa had performed on and off since undergoing surgery for esophageal cancer in 2010. Still, he continued to pour his energy into fostering young musicians.

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die of -,
heart failure
assume a position of -, 〜の地位に就く
renowned　名高い、名声のある
across the decades renowned　数十年にわたり
on and off 「不定期に」「ときどき」
pour energy into -, 〜にエネルギーを注ぐ
esophageal [iːsɑ̀fədʒíːəl] 食道の
cancer 癌
foster 育てる、養育する