Jeff Dunn asks:

>I am writing now not about the bright lights of success, the shining
>glories of a life, but the bitter end.  I am speaking of the moments of
>sad summation, when one looks back--or imagines oneself looking back--at
>a life of promise incomplete.
>
>Who has best captured these moments in music--intentionally or otherwise?

Strauss, Metamorphosen?

Mitch Friedfeld