Alain Frogley has taught at Oxford and Lancaster universities, and since 1994 at the University of Connecticut; in 2008 he was Visiting Professor at Yale. In 2005–6 he was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the editor of Vaughan Williams Studies (1996) and the author of Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony (2001); he has also contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Aidan J. Thomson taught at the universities of Oxford and Leeds before being appointed Lecturer in Music at Queen’s University Belfast in 2003. His publications include articles and book chapters on Elgar (in 19th-Century Music, The Cambridge Companion to Elgar, Edward Elgar and His World, Elgar Studies and The Musical Quarterly), Ethel Smyth and Arnold Bax.