Mini-Maestro: ‘I’ve lost 55 kilos’
OrchestrasFollowing up on Slippedisc’s story about his Prince Philip symphony, Finland’s leading newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has published an interview with the exuberant Leif Segerstam.
The maestro, down from 172 kilos to 117 this year, has some diet tips to share.
‘The diet is very simple: I don’t drink any more alcohol, which already leaves a litre off every day. My favourite food is sashimi, or raw fish, and with it grated root. You can have a Sachertorte for dessert and still lose weight!’
The Prince Philip symphony was written in two days and ends, he discloses, with a dog mourning its master.
Read on here.
He might be a genius, but he is the weirdest musician since Glenn Gould.
But no other musician has gone through such a radical transmutation.
https://artmusiclounge.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/remembering-leif-segerstam-in-the-1970s/
172 kilograms, right?
Great!! And he’s just reduced his chances of getting Covid19.
No, you are wrong. He has actually reduced his risk of becoming seriously ill or dying should he get covid (probably). His risk of catching it hasn’t changed.
I’m sure the reindeer will appreciate it next time they have to pull him around the North Pole.
A litre off daily? Would that be vodka or wine, I wonder?? Good for him, and I hope he lives long!
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Gosh! I hope he is not down to 117 lbs! I assume it must be kilos or stone.
Where on earth do they still talk in lbs?!
It says kilos in the headline and also in the text.
Also, nobody but the US talks in lbs. anymore. (Although with a health questionnaire I fill out regularly, when they ask your current weight, they say: “if in the US, please list your weight in pounds; if in the UK, list your weight in stones.” …and of course there’s a box to check so they know if your 240 means 240 pounds or 240 stone… LOL, I hope)
[Also, nobody but the US talks in lbs. anymore.]
Wrong. It’s an idiosyncracy of Canadian culture that although we converted to metric in the seventies, for measuring a human individual’s weight alone, we somehow could not give up imperial.
^ replying to my previous comment which is not yet approved:
Pardon my snark. Looks like it originally said “lbs” and was changed to “kg.” If NL makes a correction he doesn’t usually acknowledge it, so it looks as if the way it is now is the way it’s always been.
“The maestro, down from 172lbs to 117 this year, has some diet tips to share.”
You might not want to follow those tips to the letter; that’s a pretty radical and possibly harmful weight loss over such a short time. Check with your doctor.
That should be kilos, not pounds. 172 kilos is approximately 379 pounds. Glad to see he’s finally taking his health seriously.
I suspect you meant 172KG to 117KG…so he lost 55KG?
An amusing cover to his Brahms recording here. Who has the better beard ? 😉
https://www.hbdirect.com/album/3157967-brahms-symphony-no-1-segerstam-symphony-no-288-world-premiere-leif-segerstam-piano-turku-philharmonic-orchestra.html
Good find, JanK. I vote for S’s beard.
Why this diet of sashimi, Maestro?
One of the numerous anagrams for your name is “Gefilte smears”.
I suggest that you try this method, which is apparently very popular among today’s Kosher crowd. Highly effective, especially if you can stand the lingering smell.
😉
Kgs…. if that was pounds I’d be seriously worried!
He mentions Sibelian and Elgarian influences.
You need to correct something in your post here: you mean kg and not lbs. If Segerstam got down to 117 lbs. he would just disappear!
We sometimes get a Lava Cake from the frozen section at Trader Joe’s, but I don’t think that quite rates with a Sachertorte. I’ll need to step up my game a bit.
he needs a hair cut. they should put him under the supermarket bacon slicer.
That would take off another kilo!
I have lost 1.5 kgs in the last month, in case anyone is wondering…
I wondered, wujafan, as I’m two kilos behind you over ten months and lost in admiration.
Losing 55 kilos is not healthy, unless he is the tallest maestro on the planet. Btw, who was the tallest conductor in living memory? Otto Klemperer?
In his case it probably is healthy since even 117 kg is rather heavy.