I just read that Seiji Ozawa has esophageal cancer. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

“I am perfectly fine right now. I have no problems drinking or eating,” the 74-year-old maestro said at a news conference in Tokyo. A doctor who accompanied Ozawa said the cancer is in an early stage.

“I will abide by the doctors’ advice. I will be back within six months,” a smiling Ozawa said.

(For the rest of this Tchaikovsky symphony go here and do a search on Ozawa.)

He is also known as the “world renown, very good sport”: