{"id":1189,"date":"2013-02-28T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T04:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T04:03:24","slug":"saito-kinen-festival-seiji-ozawa-makes-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival-seiji-ozawa-makes-a-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Saito Kinen Festival; Seiji Ozawa Makes a Comeback!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wbXMXAwn42\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/culture\/2013\/02\/20\/entertainment-news\/ozawa-to-make-comeback-at-nagano-festival\/\">Ozawa to make comeback at Nagano festival<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/culture\/2013\/02\/20\/entertainment-news\/ozawa-to-make-comeback-at-nagano-festival\/embed\/#?secret=wbXMXAwn42\" data-secret=\"wbXMXAwn42\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" title=\"&#8220;Ozawa to make comeback at Nagano festival&#8221; &#8212; The Japan Times\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jto.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/nn20130220b1a.jpg?resize=558%2C802\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jto.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/nn20130220b1a.jpg?resize=558%2C802\" alt=\"Seiji Ozawa\" width=\"558\" height=\"802\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seiji Ozawa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival-seiji-ozawa-makes-a-comeback\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival-seiji-ozawa-makes-a-comeback\/\" data-text=\"Saito Kinen Festival; Seiji Ozawa Makes a Comeback!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seiji Ozawa will be back again this year for the international Saito Kinen classical music festival which he has been the center of for so many years, now he has recovered to good health.<\/p>\n<p>Great news and something that many will be looking forward to as this festival draws talent from around the world right here in Matsumoto!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival-seiji-ozawa-makes-a-comeback\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/saito-kinen-festival-seiji-ozawa-makes-a-comeback\/\" data-text=\"Saito Kinen Festival; Seiji Ozawa Makes a Comeback!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":76230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[2357,2358],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/nn20130220b1a.jpg?fit=558%2C802","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saito Kinen Festival; Seiji Ozawa Makes a Comeback! | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Seiji Ozawa will be back again this year for the international Saito Kinen classical music festival which he has been the center of for so many years, now he has recovered to good health. 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