Seiji Ozawa

[DavidW]

Posted to another forum: One of the greatest performances of Mahler's Symphony 9 I've ever heard, Ozawa takes us to the abyss. Incredible symphony 2 as well. And his DG Ravel 3 disc set is my desert island set for all of it in one place.

One of my favorite seconds.  Makes me think I should listen to the 9th.  I also greatly enjoy his highly underrated Prokofiev:

[DavidW]

btw I don't know if we need two Ozawa threads though, I think I'll merge them.

[Atriod]

He must be one of the few people I have heard of who was treated successfully for oeosphageal cancer.

I think we are going to see some major advances in prognosis in the coming years/decade. When I was in my transition between med school and residency I did some research where we used two genetic markers in patients with various stages, it was quite a promising study. Molecular genetics is only going to get far better from here on. In some of the other cancer research I've seen sensitivities doubling when genetic testing is introduced.

[vandermolen]

I think we are going to see some major advances in prognosis in the coming years/decade. When I was in my transition between med school and residency I did some research where we used two genetic markers in patients with various stages, it was quite a promising study. Molecular genetics is only going to get far better from here on. In some of the other cancer research I've seen sensitivities doubling when genetic testing is introduced.

That's very encouraging news and thank you for sharing it with us. I lost a very good friend to that horrible disease in 2018.

[SonicMan46]

I think we are going to see some major advances in prognosis in the coming years/decade. When I was in my transition between med school and residency I did some research where we used two genetic markers in patients with various stages, it was quite a promising study. Molecular genetics is only going to get far better from here on. In some of the other cancer research I've seen sensitivities doubling when genetic testing is introduced.

Hi Atriod - back in 2010 I left a number of posts in this thread on the different types of esophageal cancers (retired a year later after 34 years as a faculty radiologist specializing in GI disease) - shortly after those posts I read the 2010 book below (is there an update?) - but your points are well taken, early diagnosis, improved therapies, and molecular biology and gene editing are all in the future - who knows what will happen?  Wish that I was younger to see the possibilities!  Thanks for your comments - Dave

[Atriod]

Hi Atriod - back in 2010 I left a number of posts in this thread on the different types of esophageal cancers (retired a year later after 34 years as a faculty radiologist specializing in GI disease) - shortly after those posts I read the 2010 book below (is there an update?) - but your points are well taken, early diagnosis, improved therapies, and molecular biology and gene editing are all in the future - who knows what will happen?  Wish that I was younger to see the possibilities!  Thanks for your comments - Dave

I still keep in touch with one of my old mentors, an MGP attending. The future is going to be remarkable, I think the therapeutics side is a bit slower to see anything revolutionary but early detection with genetic testing will be a prime component. I have not read that book or heard of it, TBH I usually avoid anything medical related in my personal life (recent exception being Diagnosis on Netflix which my wife and I loved). I will make sure to pick it up.

[LKB]

This is fair. When at the top of his game, he ranked with the best.

Agreed.

I greatly enjoyed his Berlioz, and he ( along with Mehta ) introduced me to Mahler around 1975.

I only saw him conduct once, Walton's Belshazzar's Feast near the end of his tenure in San Francisco.

But he was a fixture in my house, via WGBH'S broadcast of selected BSO concerts over several years.

RIP Maestro, and thank you.

[DavidW]

Ozawa on What's My Line:

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Ozawa on What's My Line:

That was interesting. I'd have thought that Ozawa would have been too young for 'What's My Line?'