With the intent of making them more “personal,” our publisher has requested that we submit our “get-to-know-us” biographies in first person. Since I’m disinclined by nature to dwell on myself in a first-person kind of way, suffice to say that, despite my full-time work (for nearly 30 years) managing and writing for the program book of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—where I’m also principal pre-concert speaker and take on a variety of other tasks—I have managed somehow to continue writing for Fanfare since 1989, though my contributions are now much reduced in number and scope, focusing primarily on historic performances by the likes of Toscanini, Cantelli, Giulini, and Callas. In fact, it was my longtime interest in historic recordings that led me to participate in the selection process for the 12-disc box of BSO broadcasts, “Boston Symphony Orchestra Symphony Hall Celebration: From the Broadcast Archives 1943–2000” (released in 2001 to mark the centennial of Symphony Hall), as well as oversee and contribute to the editorial content of that set. My freelance work has included writing and lecturing for a variety of other organizations, the most recent and unexpected addition to that list being The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, across the road from Tanglewood, the BSO’s summer home. Beyond that, anyone feeling the need to know more is respectfully and politely referred to the website of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where my professional biography should be findable with (I hope) a minimum of effort. But here’s a hint: find a schedule-listing that shows me as pre-concert speaker, click on my name, and you should be all set. There may be other ways, too, but that’s the only one I know.