Kurt of Gerolstein

During my years wandering in the Victorian age and making the acquaintance of its music-makers, I've come upon a number of songs which o...

In the early 1990s, I wrote an article about Adolf Philipp for my Encyclopaedia of the Musical Theatre. I don't think anyone had much bo...

  One can't know everything. So I rarely venture outside my area of 'expertise' and into the twentieth century. But the Excelsio...