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Old Men in Chula Vista Are Different Now
About 8 years ago when I was a junior high teacher, I chaperoned a school snowboard trip. As I was taking a lunch break at the lodge, a Hendrix tune came over the speakers--maybe Foxey Lady. For some reason I thought to ask one of the junior high girls her opinion of the music. "What does this music make you think of?" I ask. I'm thinking she'll say something like "revolution" or at least "rock'n'roll". "Old people music," she replies matter of factly. I don't think she understands why I start choking and laughing. Similarly, I have a piano student in her mid 60s. Her husband who is about her same age really hates it when she plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, because as he says, "It's soooo boring!" In the words of Mr. Dylan, "Oh, the times they are a-changing."— May 10, 2010 11:03 a.m.