I must apologize for taking such a long break; life often has a way of catching up with us at inopportune times, and the past month or so has been fraught, so to speak, with more than its share of drama and unexpected responsibilities. Having said that, however, let’s attend to the matter at hand.
First, let’s return for a moment to Tom Service’s admirable lecture, “So long and thanks for all the noise: 2010 and the end of musical history.”  Part of the reason that this title so caught my attention was that …