A couple of days ago, on my way to the British Library, I bumped into a friend who asked me what I was currently working on. Enthusiastic, as usual, to share stories about recent projects, I began reeling off some of the jobs currently on my to-do list: CD notes
Earlier this week, I came across a post by a performer-musicologist friend of mine who was having a ‘what’s it all for?’ moment. ‘Do we really need historical musicology?’ he asked his Facebook friends. ‘Suppose it all just stopped right now, and we just made do with what we know,
If this week’s post is both a little later, and a little less coherent than its predecessors, I offer apologies. I have just returned (well, very late last night) from a wonderful week in sunny Toronto, where I attended the 18th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music – and this
