Richard Carver introduces his performance/lecture on Irish and Scottish migration for the Oxford Human Rights Festival.
There are obviously many downsides to retiring from CENDEP - but one of the positive things for me has been to free a lot of time to work on one of my passions: music. For more than 50 years I have been an amateur musician, with more enthusiasm than talent, if truth be told. In retirement, my focus has been much less on the classical music that I have played for most of my life than on the traditional music of the British and Irish Isles.
As I immersed myself in this music, I became interested, perhaps rather perversely, in one particular aspect: how tunes got their names.
