Feeling old yet?

[jon-nyc]

Damn you old.

[Piano*Dad]

I edited it and added more when you weren't looking ...

[jon-nyc]

Wow. I saw Leon flesher’s last Carnegie hall concert. His first was when Germany still occupied France.

But that speaks to his age, not mine.

[RealPlayer]

I heard Rubinstein in concert too. With orchestra. Of course, I was a wee teen then.

[Bernard]

In 1970 I entered high school. Seventy years before that was the year 1900. As a freshman, thinking back to 1900 seemed incomprehensible. This year I'll be 70.

[Piano*Dad]

I guess we're the same age. I come of age (70) next month.

And about Fleisher, he was a judge at one of Piano*Son's competitions in Norfolk.

[CHAS]

I am younger than Biden and Trump.
I don't find that to be particularly encouraging.

[kluurs]

As a child I remember my older sister who worked for the Veterans Administration speaking about how there were soldiers at the VA hospital who had been there since WWI. It seemed incredible to me that a person could remain in a hospital for nearly 50 years.

[jon-nyc]

@CHAS said:

I am younger than Biden and Trump.
I don't find that to be particularly encouraging.

Beats the alternative.

[Mary Anna]

@DougG said:

I like to think of it musical context of what is an oldie?

The first Beatles album came out about 63 years ago.

When you were listening to that first Beatles album ,what was an oldie that was 63 years old? Well, that’s about when John Philip Sousa wrote “the stars and stripes forever” and Scott Joplin wrote “the entertainer.” The biggest pop song hits were by Al Jolson..

Yes. You can absolutely hear Sousa and Joplin in some Beatles songs.

Also, Joplin had quite a moment shortly after the Beatles broke up.

I rather like this kind of recursion. The artist reaches back in time for something that many people loved and reintroduces it to a new audience, sometimes but not always (Joplin), reinterpreting it for a new generation.