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Chief conductor Hiroyuki Iwaki talks to an unnamed ABC interviewer about his first 10 years with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (1984)
Hiroyuki Iwaki has been Australia's longest-running chief conductor of a capital-city symphony orchestra to date.
In 1984, 11 years after he first worked with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and 10 years after he became their chief conductor, he reflects on that first decade. He talks about his amusing first rehearsal with the orchestra, his other experiences of conductor-orchestra relations and the unusually warm relationship he feels between himself and the MSO musicians, life with his pianist wife Kaori Kimura, his sense of Melbourne as home, his discovery of golf, and more.
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