That usually found him devoting his capacious energies to German lieder, the songs of such composers as Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf, but also a small amount of French mélodie and an even smaller quotient of English-language song.
A small, almost entirely bald man who enjoys pinstriped suits and a cutthroat game of gin, Ruby, as his friends call him, devotes a few hours each day to trusts and estates, keeping the family business alive.
More often he is the noisy centrepiece of a small group of anti-Brexit activists – people who, like him, devote their days to making their cause visible and theatrical.
"I didn't want to get a job," he explained — and the Airbnb money helped him devote his time to Instapage.
Passionately denying the charges against him, he devoted his energies to clearing his name, his campaign backed by advocates worldwide.
This may not make him the most objective biographer, but it does make him a devoted one.
Like many a president before him, Obama devoted his foreign policy attention to the Middle East and Russia.
He leaves to mourn him his devoted wife Joan Robin, his children Sharon, Lauren, Dena, and Andy and daughterin-law Debbie Bauman.
Relatives described him as devoted to his job, his wife and their three children.
