You!

[Papageno]

I'm a 50 year-old guy who cherishes his past days...

[DFO]

I'm a 67 years old guy who cherishes his next years.

[Szykneij]

T Then U

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Ah, yes! Secretary-General of the "You" N.

[drogulus]

    I want to protest the trend towards serious and thoughtful posting that threatens to appear from time to time. Yes, I know it hasn't happened yet but it might. There's a very real danger that petty frivolity and cosmic narcissism will be displaced entirely by a mature consideration of important subjects, some even related to the ostensible purpose of the board, which I understand has something to do with old music. If we band together now we can prevent this disaster in the making.

                                                                         Sincerely,

                                                                         Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel
                                                                                   

[Harpo]

I'm a 67 years old guy who cherishes his next years.

I'm with "you." I'm in your age range, having fun and looking forward to more of it.

[greg]

If you're retired, I could imagine why.
By the time I'm that age, if I am retired, have enough money, and healthy, 65+ plus sounds like some of the best years of my life.
But all 3 of those at the same time actually happening...
(can't let myself get optimistic now  )

[(poco) Sforzando]

My dream is to be able to walk the countryside of Japan while listening to Mahler on an iPod. Then I can die happily.

China would be more appropriate for listening to Das Lied von der Erde.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Ten facts about Sforzando (in no particular order):

1. As a teenager I had fantasies of becoming a composer, and I was in fact accepted at two major American conservatories to major in musical composition. (I abandoned the fantasy, however, after one year of study at Oberlin in 1966-67).
2. At one point in the 1980s I decided to try composing again, and I wrote some piano music as well as a full-length opera for which I used as a libretto an excellent translation of the Japanese Noh play "Momijigari."
3. For a couple of years now, I have been working on a stage play about the demise of a classical radio station.  
4. I take a great interest in almost all the arts except film.
5. The composer who matters to me above all is Beethoven.
6. I have a modest collection of original contemporary art, though I doubt any of the artists I've bought would be known to anyone here.
7. I am a decent cook when I set my mind to it, and I tend to concentrate on Indian, Italian, and Spanish food.
VIII. I weigh much too much, and this fact weighs on me.
9. I will be 61 on 9/11 of this year. On the real 9/11, I had just landed in Rome, Italy, for a spur-of-the-moment trip, one of about a dozen I've made to Europe over the years.
10. My real name is not Sforzando. It is Poco.

[greg]

China would be more appropriate for listening to Das Lied von der Erde.

Sure, but I don't listen to that one very often. The only one I actually like is the Farewell- especially the ending. Maybe one day, though.

[greg]

Ten facts about Sforzando (in no particular order):

1. As a teenager I had fantasies of becoming a composer, and I was in fact accepted at two major American conservatories to major in musical composition. (I abandoned the fantasy, however, after one year of study at Oberlin in 1966-67).
2. At one point in the 1980s I decided to try composing again, and I wrote some piano music as well as a full-length opera for which I used as a libretto an excellent translation of the Japanese Noh play "Momijigari."
3. For a couple of years now, I have been working on a stage play about the demise of a classical radio station.  
4. I take a great interest in almost all the arts except film.
5. The composer who matters to me above all is Beethoven.
6. I have a modest collection of original contemporary art, though I doubt any of the artists I've bought would be known to anyone here.
7. I am a decent cook when I set my mind to it, and I tend to concentrate on Indian, Italian, and Spanish food.
VIII. I weigh much too much, and this fact weighs on me.
9. I will be 61 on 9/11 of this year. On the real 9/11, I had just landed in Rome, Italy, for a spur-of-the-moment trip, one of about a dozen I've made to Europe over the years.
10. My real name is not Sforzando. It is Poco.

Are you sure you're not Larry Rinkel?