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Early career[edit]

Wasn't he an assistant of some sort in Boston with Ozawa? And had to conduct Mahler 9 in concert without rehearsal? Confirmation, anyone? --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 19:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Got it in now. I was in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (BSO's chorus) at the time, and well remember the occasion. Seiji Ozawa's brother died unexpectedly in Japan; he conducted just a few hours after hearing of the death, then left and Nagano covered the next two performances on successive nights (as well as rehearsals for the following week's concert of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher). ElrondPA (talk) 15:00, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Saint François d'Assise première[edit]

I am not at all certain that the article is right in stating that Messiaen chose Nagano to conduct the première of Saint François d'Assise. I think it was actually Ozawa, although Nagano (who would later conduct the work in Salzburg in a production published by Deutsche Grammophon) may well have conducted some of the performances. I wonder if he was not Ozawa's assistant. S.Camus (talk) 10:18, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation[edit]

I remember during the 1998 Winter Olympics in the city of Nagano, Nagano, we were all told many, many times it was not pronounced na-GAH-no but NAH-ga-no, with the stress on the first syllable. However, whenever I've heard this conductor's name mentioned, it's always on the second syllable. Do we know his own preferred way of saying it? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 19:25, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is no stress accent in Japanese; all syllables are spoken with the same loudness. So neither na-GA-no nor NA-ga-no (nor na-ga-NO, for that matter) is correct (at least as the name of the city). I once heard a talk-show host argue at length with an author who had written a book about Hiroshima. One insisted on hi-RO-shi-ma, the other on hi-ro-SHI-ma. Japanese words that have come into the English language, on the other hand, often do have a conventional stress pattern, as loan words in English, that they lack in Japanese. An example is "ki-MO-no". It is said that Japanese have some difficulty understanding these anglicized words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.53.195.38 (talk) 16:13, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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