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But Cardus, a Christian think tank, said the latest figures were "alarming" and showed Canada has one of the fastest growing euthanasia programmes in the world.

Not for nothing did the critic Neville Cardus once suggest that to witness Walter conduct was to be “visited by an act of grace.”

The stature of “the most masterful of all modern conductors,” as the critic Neville Cardus anointed him, has since wilted in the egotistical heat cast by his erstwhile protégé, constant betrayer and eventual successor: Leonard Bernstein.

“The author explains that Neville Cardus was unknowable but this book does a very fine job indeed of guiding us through his career and motivations.”

Hamilton’s book shows how Cardus changed sports journalism while also making him something of a star in his own right.