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Did Success Spoil Rock Hunter? – How Musicians Navigate Success

In 20th Century Fox’s zany comedy from 1957, “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter,” the hero achieves exactly the success he had always craved and presumably lives happily ever after. For musicians, achieving success is hard enough, but sustaining it over a long career is even harder. In this month’s blog, we look at how several musicians managed it… or didn’t.

Andy Wolf, Great performers, Isaac Stern, Lea Luboshutz, Musician excellence, musicians agingThomas WolfJanuary 13, 2026

For Those in the Music Business, When Is Old, Too Old?

Some musicians give superb performances into their nineties and even at a hundred years of age. Others should quit decades earlier. For those in the music business, when is old, too old?

musicians agingThomas WolfJanuary 21, 2025Mierczyslaw Horszowski, Menahem Pressler, Joseph Silverstein, Andrew Wolf, Eleanor Sokoloff, Aloysius Maria Eli Petruccelli

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