We’re all used to rock musicians performing in their 70s and 80s now – something that would have been unthinkable just a few decades back. But can you envisage the hardy veterans of the 1960s – the Stones, McCartney et al - still on stage at, say, the age of 97?
Well, the veteran conductor Herbert Blomstedt (who turned 97 last summer) took to the stage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco last week and led the orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony through a sequence of symphonies by Schubert and Brahms. Blomstedt didn’t stand up mind you, but was plonked in a padded seat where all the musicians were able to see him conduct proceedings.
