actual age on election day

81 Biden 2024
80
79
78 Trump 2024
77 Biden 2020
76
75
74 Trump 2020
73 Reagan 1984, Dole 1996
72 McCain 2008
71
70 Trump 2016
69 Reagan 1980, Clinton 2016
68 Bush 1992
67
66 Eisenhower 1956
65 Romney 2012
64 Truman 1948, Bush 1988
63 Ford 1976
62 Eisenhower 1952
61
60 Kerry 2004
59 Nixon 1972
58 Bush 2004
57 Humphrey 1968
56 Stevenson 1956, Johnson 1964, Carter 1980, Mondale 1984
55 Goldwater 1964, Nixon 1968, Dukakis 1988
54 Bush 2000
53
52 Stevenson 1952, Carter 1976, Gore 2000
51 Obama 2012
50 McGovern 1972, Clinton 1996
49
48
47 Nixon 1960, Obama 2008
46 Dewey 1948, Clinton 1992
45
44
43 Kennedy 1960

"Voters are just going to have to choose between 'a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory'* or a contemptible, malicious, elderly rapist with a poor memory" - Stephen Colbert

*Special Counsel's report on Joe Biden

concert review: Beo String Quartet

Finally out to a concert for the first time in two weeks and a lot of other water under the bridge. To Willow Glen to review my first chamber music concert in the church that several of the wiser concert promoters in San Jose have moved to after being evicted a couple years ago by the closing of the hall they'd all been using.

The concert was a rather mixed grill of a program by the Beo String Quartet, a young ensemble of players from Pittsburgh. One of them attended Carnegie Mellon, and I guess he swept the others, who'd studied elsewhere, in. One Haydn, light and witty as not everybody does Haydn; one Shostakovich, moderately high on the grimdark scale; a chunk of serious Bach fugues; and three contemporary compositions, one by a quartet member, the others by established women composers whose work I've heard before (Missy Mazzoli and Gabriela Ortiz).

Pretty satisfying evening, though I had to equip myself with a large army of cough drops to ward off the remnant of a long-departed cold.