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November 29th, 2024
Image credit: One Earth Mission/ASE/University of California TV/Inside Outer Space screengrab
In his last public performance, Maestro Seiji Ozawa conducts Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, as broadcast directly to the International Space Station (ISS). Maestro Ozawa passed away Feb 6, 2024.
In this emotional production, Ozawa conducts the Saito Kinen Orchestra which he co-founded in 1984 as an annual gathering of musicians from around the world.
This performance was transmitted by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) directly to the ISS, where astronaut Koichi Wakata represented humanity as the audience.
This One Earth Mission conveys our shared home on this One Earth, a vision that drove Maestra Ozawa throughout his musical career. The dramatic fly-over shows Italy to dusk over the Red Sea.
Image credit: JAXA/ASE/One Earth Mission
Earth and music
This movie is dedicated to his memory, with thanks for his deep commitment to Earth and music. A collaboration of Seiji Ozawa/ SKO/ JAXA/ ONE EARTH MISSION Project/the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) and University of California TV.
Photos by astronauts – ISS Expedition 67 – June 13, 2022: USA – Bob Hines, Francisco Rubio, Jessica Watkins, Kayla Barron, Kjell Lindgren, Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn; Russia – Denis Matveev, Dmitry Petelin, Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Korsakov, Sergey Prokopyev; Germany – Matthias Maurer; Italy – Samantha Cristoforetti.
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