As Time Goes By - by TPO

 

 
Regarding aging ...
a few things to ponder (truths from humor) ...

1 - "When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was only sick."  - George Burns

2 - "Middle age is when your age starts showing around your middle."  - Bob Hope

3 - "Age is a case of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."  - Jack Benny

4 - "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."  - Hector Louis Berlioz

5 - " Never take life seriously.  Nobody gets out alive anyway."  - Anonymous

6 -" May Your Life Be Like Arithmetic:
       Joys Added,
       Sorrows Subtracted,
       Friends Multiplied,
       Love Un-Divided."   - Anonymous

"An Die Musik" - by Franz Peter Schubert

"An Die Musik" - D. 547 (Op. 88/4)
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)

Tenor: Ian Bostridge

Piano:  Julius Drake

"An Die Musik"* - D. 547 (Op. 88/4)
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Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden,
Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt,
Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb' entzunden,
Hast mich in eine beßre Welt entrückt!
[In eine beßre Welt entrückt ...]

Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
[Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir ...]

* (text from poem by Franz von Schober)
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Translation
"To Music" 
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Oh gracious Art, in how many grey hours,
When life's fierce orbit ensnared me,
Have you kindled my heart to warm love,
Transfigured me into a better world!

How often has a sigh escaping from your harp,
A sweet, a sacred harmony of yours
Thrown open the heaven of better times,
Oh gracious Art, for that I thank you!