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. . . where seniors are celebrated and celebrities ignored.
Eldercountry is wrapping it up, at least for a while. It will remain on line for an indefinite period, so that all the Spotlights, essays and legal columns will remain accessible in the Archives section, but publication of new ones will be suspended. Some favorites are reprinted in this issue.
We are grateful to our readers, and pleased that our readership has extended well beyond friends, acquaintances and family. Special thanks to the contributors to the Visitors' Voice section, who have themselves been complimented by a reader (see Visitors' Voice).
--Janice Auritt Oser, Editor & Publisher
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CECILIA BRAUER (from December 2007)
Cecilia has to moisten her fingers
in a dish in front of her armonica.
It was Opening Night at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Outside, on the Lincoln Center Plaza, a giant screen showed Cecilia performing on the armonica, also known as the glass harmonica, in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Cecilia, who plays the celesta (or celeste) in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the piano in the Met Opera Orchestra on tour, started her second, additional, career on the armonica 16 years ago, when she was 67.
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"It's time to move. My wife and I have been married for over 50 years and have lived in the same house for 33 of them. We love the house, but it's large and expensive to maintain. But to me it actually feels cramped because it has so much Stuff." Click here for more.
 On an historic visit to this country, the Pope was serenaded with "Happy Birthday to You" at Yankee Stadium in New York City. He was serenaded with the same song on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., among other places. Were royalties due to holders of the copyright on the song? Legally speaking, Yes.
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Anyone may be a philosopher – a seeker of wisdom and enlightenment, according to the dictionary. But there are some who have special qualifications as philosophers. How so? You can ask them about that, and more. Click here to Check It Out.
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