Thanks to EngAGE Regional Programs Director Alma Wright for these wonderful photos from the Roaring ’20s Party held at the Magnolia senior community in San Bernardino last week. Looks like a lot of fun, doesn’t it?
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Host Alicia Sedwick talks to the creators of two new inter-generational organizations that promise to change the future of treatment for people with dementia: MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC., where people with dementia are finding joy again by getting back into the “rhythm of life” by playing music, and TIME OUT @ UCLA, where seniors with memory loss are matched with UCLA students in a supportive, weekly respite program.
Below: Band Rehearsal with the Fifth Dementia and high school students at The Windward School in Los Angeles.
From the NY Times: “After a lifetime of making sculptures in his spare time, Mr. Moss is enjoying the spotlight at his second-ever solo exhibition, at Manhattan College in the Bronx. Although he was always serious about his art, it took a back seat to his day jobs — as an artist for the NBC television network and, later, as the owner of a design firm that started with decorative mirrors before shifting its concentration to lamps and lighting fixtures.”
From an article written by his son for The Jewish Daily Forward: “Now 91, freed from the need to earn a living, and able to give his mind time to focus on what it sought to express — the horror of war and evil in general — he’s been sculpting more than ever. This has led to his first show in New York City, at Manhattan College in Riverdale. Forty-two of his sculptures are on display at the college’s O’Malley Library until December 16.”
See his work on his website.
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“On Dec. 21 Mr. Thomas turns 70, though you wouldn’t guess it from seeing him, either close up or in action on the podium of the San Francisco Symphony, the ensemble he has taken to the top rank of American orchestras as the music director since 1995. . . Though many orchestras now run their own live recording labels, Mr. Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony were at the start of this trend with SFS Media. The results have been ‘tremendous,’ he said, with 11 Grammys, including several for installments in the orchestra’s acclaimed accounts of the complete Mahler symphonies. With “Keeping Score,” Mr. Thomas’s popular series of PBS programs and multimedia projects, focused on explicating major works by Beethoven, Stravinsky and more, Mr. Thomas has proved the most compelling music teacher for the public since Bernstein.” Read more here.
Zero Freitas, 62, may have the world’s largest vinyl record collection.
“Freitas is a wealthy businessman who, since he was a child, has been unable to stop buying records. ‘I’ve gone to therapy for 40 years to try to explain this to myself,’ he said. . . .
“After studying music composition in college, he took over the family business, a private bus line that serves the São Paulo suburbs. By age 30, he had about 30,000 records. About 10 years later, his bus company expanded, making him rich. Not long after that, he split up with his wife, and the pace of his buying exploded. ‘Maybe it’s because I was alone,’ Freitas said. ‘I don’t know.’ He soon had a collection in the six figures; his best guess at a current total is several million albums.” Read the full story here.
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 12/4/13:
Paul’s Kitchen is located in City Market Chinatown, a neighborhood that has changed a lot since the restaurant opened in 1946.
“For 23 years, manager Charlie Ng has run the restaurant on downtown’s San Pedro Street as his uncle Paul directed, adhering to a business strategy that has over the years been elevated to maxim: Keep everything the same. It’s even woven into the restaurant’s Chinese name, bao ju — a common naming format for restaurants of the time period that translates literally as ‘treasure memory.’”
Read more here.
From WRVO Public Media in Oswego, New York:
“Many individuals may think about saving money for retirement, but that’s only the beginning of the planning process. Growing older can mean a need for different transportation options, more access to medical care, and help with a variety of tasks. But the decisions really all start with housing,” says Karl Pillemer, a gerontologist at Cornell University. Read more and listen to the story here.
