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11-15-07, 05:36 AM
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The conductor on this recording, Georg Tintner, lived car lite for much of his life. The following paragraph is excerpted from his biography at naxos.com:
"In 1938 he fled the Nazis, spending a year in England before emigrating to New Zealand. For several years he ran a poultry farm – as a result of which he became a total vegetarian – before becoming Music Director of the Auckland String Players and Auckland Choral Society in 1947. He was also an avowed socialist and pacifist, and as such he rode a bicycle as “a symbol of the ultimate in harmlessness”.
Tinter apparently remained car-lite until just before his death in 1999 in Nova Scotia. Here's are comments from obituary notices in Halifax newspapers:
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"He seemed to be a man of great and broad depths," Mr. Geraghty said. "You'd
see him on the concert stage, dressed in evening wear conducting an orchestra .
. . and the next day bicycling downtown with rubber boots. . . .
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Tintner was often seen walking or riding his bicycle around Halifax.
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Here's a comment by the conductor's widow, defending her husband against the claim that he looked "frail':
"You may be interested to know that back in
the days when you wondered if he'd make it through his concerts, what
he was actually doing was: riding his bicycle 16 km from home (in
the Samford Valley) to Ferny Grove Station (a hilly ride, with one
big hill as you go over the range), then rehearsing for six hours as
it was in those days, with only two 15-minute breaks all day, and
then if I didn't go to pick him up he would ride those 16 km home
again (same hills, same big one over the range). And he did this
until we moved to Canada - when he was 70. So I think you can see
from this that he was anything but frail - indeed fitter than most
people half his age."
And another discussing his time in the Antipodes:
"New Zealand and Australia were both conformist, Anglocentric cultural wastelands which had little time for 'bloody foreigners', especially one who became a total vegetarian and rode a bicycle."
So it is possible to have a 'high-profile' career and be car lite at the same time. And continue to be car lite to a ripe old age.
The conductor on this recording, Georg Tintner, lived car lite for much of his life. The following paragraph is excerpted from his biography at naxos.com:
"In 1938 he fled the Nazis, spending a year in England before emigrating to New Zealand. For several years he ran a poultry farm – as a result of which he became a total vegetarian – before becoming Music Director of the Auckland String Players and Auckland Choral Society in 1947. He was also an avowed socialist and pacifist, and as such he rode a bicycle as “a symbol of the ultimate in harmlessness”.
Tinter apparently remained car-lite until just before his death in 1999 in Nova Scotia. Here's are comments from obituary notices in Halifax newspapers:
*********
"He seemed to be a man of great and broad depths," Mr. Geraghty said. "You'd
see him on the concert stage, dressed in evening wear conducting an orchestra .
. . and the next day bicycling downtown with rubber boots. . . .
*******
Tintner was often seen walking or riding his bicycle around Halifax.
***********
Here's a comment by the conductor's widow, defending her husband against the claim that he looked "frail':
"You may be interested to know that back in
the days when you wondered if he'd make it through his concerts, what
he was actually doing was: riding his bicycle 16 km from home (in
the Samford Valley) to Ferny Grove Station (a hilly ride, with one
big hill as you go over the range), then rehearsing for six hours as
it was in those days, with only two 15-minute breaks all day, and
then if I didn't go to pick him up he would ride those 16 km home
again (same hills, same big one over the range). And he did this
until we moved to Canada - when he was 70. So I think you can see
from this that he was anything but frail - indeed fitter than most
people half his age."
And another discussing his time in the Antipodes:
"New Zealand and Australia were both conformist, Anglocentric cultural wastelands which had little time for 'bloody foreigners', especially one who became a total vegetarian and rode a bicycle."
So it is possible to have a 'high-profile' career and be car lite at the same time. And continue to be car lite to a ripe old age.