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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 25

95-Year-Old Pianist Lily Friedman Weighs Retirement After 7 Decades as Fatigue and Vision Problems Grow

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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 25

95-Year-Old Pianist Lily Friedman Weighs Retirement After 7 Decades as Fatigue and Vision Problems Grow

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 25

Lily Friedman, 95, is debating whether to retire after more than 70 years as a pianist and teacher, even as she says she does not want to stop playing.
Friedman says lessons now leave her exhausted for hours, her eyesight makes reading notes harder, and her student roster has fallen from as many as 50 to fewer than a dozen.
Her hesitation reflects a broader retirement dilemma for older Americans balancing passion, physical limits and finances as the U.S. population ages.
By 2030, 74 million Americans will be over 65, up from 49 million a decade earlier, making such late-career decisions increasingly common.

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