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Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
by Haruki Murakami
I didn't know anything about Ozawa before I started reading this - I wouldn't even have been able to name a Japanese conductor. The lack of a higher rating is down to my own poor timing in reading this book, as I was unfamiliar with a lot of the music discussed and wasn't in a situation to be able to listen to any of it while I was reading.
It's probably best to be at least passingly familiar with the music mentioned; I think you'd probably get a lot more out of it that way. It's not as if there isn't anything there for you if you're not, though - it's just that I know I didn't read this in ideal circumstances and although it's not really fair for my rating to reflect that, here I am anyway.
There is a lot here and it is very interesting; the interplay between Ozawa's knowledge and Murakami's is really weird and wonderful. There are also all these off-hand comments about food scattered throughout, which lightened the tone of some of the conversations considerably.
It's probably best to be at least passingly familiar with the music mentioned; I think you'd probably get a lot more out of it that way. It's not as if there isn't anything there for you if you're not, though - it's just that I know I didn't read this in ideal circumstances and although it's not really fair for my rating to reflect that, here I am anyway.
There is a lot here and it is very interesting; the interplay between Ozawa's knowledge and Murakami's is really weird and wonderful. There are also all these off-hand comments about food scattered throughout, which lightened the tone of some of the conversations considerably.