- He was a prominent Canadian arts impresario. He was managing director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for 25 years, during which he helped the careers of several artists, including Glenn Gould. He helped arrange Gould's legendary visit to the USSR in 1957.
- He fled Germany for England in the spring of 1939, a few months before the outbreak of WWII. His parents were briefly imprisoned in concentration camps but managed to escape. As a German internee, he was taken to Canada and detained in wartime camps for enemy aliens in Quebec and New Brunswick. His first paid job in civilian life was as a farm laborer in Ontario.
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