[lit-ideas] Re: Writing while drinking
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:58:50 -0400
I can't say for sure one way or the other, but you don't say how complete
this list is. Plus there are only 5 from 1911 to 2006 and they all died
before age 60. Seems like there's something else at work here, something
inherited perhaps.
> [Original Message]
> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/18/2006 10:09:56 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Writing while drinking
>
> At 04:21 AM 10/18/2006, you wrote:
>
>
> > > Somebody did a study a few years ago on [symphony] conductors and
> > > concluded that they suffer WAAAAAAAAAAAY more heart failure and
> > > sudden death while performing than any other job. A lot of them have
> > > died in public while 'performing'.
> >
> >This might be because they keep performing up until their eighties or
> >nineties or even beyond.
>
> That could account for some of the older ones, but:
>
> Felix Mottl (died 2 July 1911) aged 55
> Eduard van Beinum (died 13 April 1959) Aged 58
> Joseph Keilberth (died 20 July 1968) aged 60
> Carl Barnett (died 23 April 1974) aged 59
> Giuseppe Sinopoli (died 20 April 2001) aged 54
>
> were all heart failures due to things other than old age. And these are
> just the ones who died ON the stage.
>
> p
>
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> Kingsville, ON, Canada
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