Program Notes and Musicological Services

The long-time staff Musicologist and Program Annotator of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (from 1979 to 1998) provides program notes for performances and recordings of:

        Orchestral

                Chamber

                        Vocal

                               Operatic

                                      Pops 

                                            Early music 

A respected musicologist, with research specialties and publications ranging from Renaissance madrigals to American symphonies to the world of operetta, he wears his learning lightly and can write program notes for events covering a wide range of repertories. In 1991 he received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor prize (given for "distinguished print and media coverage of music") for his Boston Symphony program notes.

Your audiences will enjoy his stimulating, enthusiastic, literate presentations of the music you perform, with up-to-date information about the composer, the background of the work, and guides for listening. Ten years of college teaching and twenty further years of pre-concert lectures have given him a good sense of what audiences want to know about the music they are hearing. Essays can emphasize a programmatic theme.