The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #174029 Message #4223801
Posted By: keberoxu
05-Jun-25 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: stay out of trouble thread (stay afloat)
Subject: RE: BS: stay out of trouble thread
On another topic, that of the retirement community I moved to. Sad news came out this week. Everybody who knows the retirement community has been telling me about a resident there, 'You must meet him.' He is a retired music critic, specializing in classical music, and well liked and respected. Also very elderly. Sadly, he died seven days ago. He was 94. So he and I just missed each other.
At the end of his life, he was active in editing and writing for the retirement community resident newsletter which is published from September to June and takes the summer off.
When the June issue of the newsletter had been printed, the news of his death was too late -- so the editors printed out one loose page of appreciation, made copies, and stuck the loose page in among the stapled pages of the newsletter. It is plain that he will be very much missed. And there is one last article by him in the issue, about the upcoming season of the Tanglewood Festival in Berkshire County.