Golden years

I just learned the word, "golden years."
I feel that it's a bit strange, because in Japan, "silver" is used for something old ages. For example, priority seats for old folks is called "silver seats", and the word "silver age" is used for old generation.

The reason "silver" is used in Japanese is, I guess that it comes from gray hair. But
I wonder why "golden" is used in English.

Tokyo Sinfornia concert - Sibelius Serenade

As I wrote the previous article, I attended the classical concert tonight. The reason of why I who are not familiar with classical music went there is,

A music director contacted me through LinkedIn and introduced his orchestra Tokyo Sinfonia to me. The orchestra is quite unique. Here is detailed information.
http://www.tokyosinfonia.com/index.html

Somehow, I thought I would go. I don't know why.

I'd never attended classical concert. Surprisingly, live performance was much different from listening to CD or from on TV. It was something like... it was as if sound rushed toward the audiences, it was very grand and sometimes magical, it was as if it had a story (actually it had)... Amazing.

Tokyo Sinfonia does concerts about once a month. I'd like to attend as many of them as possible. I think I should never attended with lack of sleep though.

Listenning to clasical music with lack of sleep?!

I'm attending a classical orchestra concert tonight. However, I'm undersleeping and although it's still 1pm, I'm terribly sleepy!
I need to drink a lot of coffee before going to the concert. I think sleepiness win caffeine though...