February 9, 2024

Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly 30 years. Taking it from the 20th to the 21st century. He was a force–a maverick whose awesome talent for interpreting music stopped legends like Bernstein cold–making Ozawa one in his own right. WCRB’s Brian McCreath joins us to remember the maestro, the man, his musicality and his legacy in Boston and the world over. From there, it’s Greek to AI. In a first, Artificial Intelligence has interpreted the text of bound papyrus scrolls. Then, how the Super Bowl became so much more than football by morphing into a super-sized, nacho-flavored cultural force. And finally, Austen’s powers–Jane that is. Hallmark is devoting an entire month of Valentine’s Day movies inspired by “Sense and Sensibility” and beyond.