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More endurance than you can shake a stick at: does conducting keep you young?
The 97-year-old Herbert Blomstedt is in London today to conduct the Philharmonia. He is one of a very long line of maestros working well into old age
The list includes Christoph von Dohnányi (95), Richard Bonynge (94) Roger Norrington (90), Zubin Mehta (88), Charles Dutoit (88), Neeme Järvi (87), Marek Janowski (85), Riccardo Muti (83), Lothar Zagrosek (82) and Daniel Barenboim (82). For Blomstedt, music remains so endlessly joyful and fascinating that quitting is scarcely thinkable Ten years ago, I interviewed the great conductor and violinist Neville Marriner on the eve of his 90th birthday. His diary was teeming with concert dates in Japan, China and Germany and he anticipated spending any downtime recording a couple of Mozart piano concerti with the Academy of St Martin’s in the Fields, the orchestra he founded.
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