These days, older musicians, interviewed on his program, ask how he knows about gigs they can't recall.
He is impatient with older musicians who are less demanding.
Her orchestra was made up of seven male musicians, all older than she.
It will also have several duplex apartments for older musicians and a community center.
"I wanted to get into the business and I was hanging around with older musicians."
Age factors in, with older German musicians perhaps feeling a closer or more direct connection to the wartime past.
Younger musicians would study with an older and more experienced musician, learning by listening to the music their mentor played.
The sky was sorrowful and disheveled, like the head of an old musician.
That night we visited a folk music center where young and old musicians perform.
"I'm just doing what all older musicians should be doing," he said the other day.