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Kazuko is all of 5 feet tall, with a little girl's smile and a steel will. She masterminded the Metropolitan Opera's tour of Japan a few years back, the first time the Met left the U.S. in its 90-year history. Kazuko also persuaded the Dalai Lama of Tibet to allow the centuries-old Tibetan Folk Opera Theater to travel to Europe and North America. Without meaning to, Kazuko backed into the role of impresario eight years ago.

She now has about 130 clients, some very important soloists, orchestras and conductors. Among them are the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and the World's Greatest Jazz Band; pianists Ruth Laredo and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli; the American Ballet Theater and Japan's Kabuki National Theater; conductors Zubin Mehta and Antonia Brico, and violist Raphael Hillyer, founder of the Juilliard String Quartet, now professor at Yale's graduate music school, as well as Kazuko's husband. Their daughter, Reiko, is 7. Reiko's drawings were all over the walls of the hospital room. Renovating a theater Kazuko became enraged when she learned that the Beacon Theater, a fine, old movie house on Broadway at 75th was to be torn down and replaced with a supermarket.

So she acquired it, and is having it renovated. "I'll make it a center for the two heritages we all have," she promised. "I was born in Japan, but I am now American. When the renovations are finished, I'll bring in different soloists, concerts, dance companies, regional theaters, and have different nights, a Polish, a French, a Japanese night." Her father owns the Tatsumura Silk which is very big. One of the family's houses is world-famous for its gardens and draws visitors from around the world.

Kazuko had a talent for the piano and studied at the Toho Music Academy in Tokyo. One of her classmates was Seiji Ozawa, conductor of the Boston Symphony. She got here 17 years ago on a scholarship to Tangle-wood, the Boston Symphony's summer school, eventually graduated from Boston University and got a master's from NYU, but never got to be a professional pianist. "For one thing, I started too late," she explained. "For another, I wasn't too serious, so I wasn't good enough." Here's your chance to save to 20 on the very same first quality "royal" PRO KEDS that sell nationally to $15.

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came here to study at Juilliard; she also met her friend's teacher, Raphael Hillyer. Hillyer asked her to be the interpreter for her friend. They were married three years later. They now live near Lincoln Center in an apartment with a full-sized tea hoie in it. "It's the highest tea house in the world.

We are on the 24th floor." When her husband toured the world with his musicians, she went along. After a while she got very restless. Idleness is not her style. When violinist Ruggiero Ricci told her about being cheated in Japan, she made it up to him by arranging a Japanese tour. After setting up concerts for other performers, the Stuttgart Bach Chorus and Orchestra asked her to manage them.

Kazuko booked them for an American tour, acquired four more clients andfbegan her new career as a female Sol Hurok. On the Job training "I had no experience. My English was still poor. I couldn't type. So my husband corrected my letters, a girl typed them, and I told everyone about my five clients." When no one here would finance a Met opera tour abroad.

Kazuko went to Japan and urged a radio-TV company about to celebrate its 25th anniversary to "do something big, something important." When she was asked, "Like she replied quickly, "Bring the Metropolitan here." They got up $2 million to do it. "Now we're planning another tour." When she finds a young beginner with promise, she soars with She said she has two now, both pianists Minora Nojima, a Japanese, and Andre-Michel Schub. "They have so much talent it scares be responsible for their profes-! sional lives. That's their whole lives." Sometimes they get help from a friend or sponsor. And' many times Kazuko puts up the money.

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