Tag: aging and music

  • Might making music be a “fountain of youth?”

    Might making music be a “fountain of youth?”

    Have you ever wondered why so many conductors and pianists continue to perform well into their 80s and 90s? The Swedish-American conductor Herbert Blomstedt (photo at right) is 98, but you wouldn’t know it by his concert schedule. The number of performances on his calendar over the next few months would be the envy of…