“Remo del Tredici has a pencil-thin mustache and carries a violin case. At 95 years old, he still drives his car around San Francisco and interacts with effortless charm,” writes Beth Spotswood in Sunday’s (8/9) San Francisco Chronicle. “According to del Tredici, his secret to happy longevity has four vital components: twice-weekly golf games, regular music lessons, participation in an orchestra and ‘a brandy Manhattan cocktail every day before dinner time for 50 years.’ ” After he retired as an auto mechanic, “stumbling upon the violin he gave up as a child, del Tredici decided to give music another shot…. Once he began violin classes at the nonprofit Community Music Center in 1996, del Tredici was hooked…. Del Tredici not only found a renewed love for music at CMC, he found a place in its chamber orchestra… [He] doubled down on his new passion for the violin and learned to build the instrument himself…. In his home workshop, del Tredici has built hundreds of violins [and] donates most of his violins…. Tregar Otton is del Tredici’s violin instructor at CMC…. ‘It’s a real pleasure teaching older students,’ said Otton…. ‘Everything is really honest and straightforward.’ ”
Posted August 11, 2015
