Writing convention might suggest calling this Post #1, My First Post, or even Post The First, but as there were at least two attempts to occupy that spot before I settled on this one (and it not being my first blog-like content), associating with the number 1 seems inappropriate. Picking 0 is more annoying and pretentious, though if I convince myself that critics aren’t nearby, all the better. No one should take this 0 too seriously; there is something to be said for what one can accomplish if you think no one is looking.

In the time of Bach, it would have been near-unimaginable to think that anyone might perform music from over 300 years ago for a living. Yet nowadays, ironically, this is the essence of professional activity within the so-called Historically Informed Performance Practice. It seems that in our attempt to understand and emulate the true practice of early music, we have somehow lost a substantial part of its practical application.