ABSTRACT
In the ten fragments that follow, I draw on my memories and my journals to pick out moments of involvement or ways of working with CPR since 1988. Rather than attempt to gather the pieces into a coherent narrative, I wanted to catch something of the differences of approach of the work, as well as a sense of a personal encounter, which speaks in different voices. I don't attempt to evaluate the work of CPR in a general sense or to offer a typology of ways of working. Nor do I trace in any detailed or systematic way the impact of these encounters on my own ways as a practitioner, teacher, writer, editor and human being. Perhaps though, I should offer a generalization: CPR has made a greater contribution to the development of research into performance practice in the United Kingdom than any other single organization in the past thirty years. I don't think that this research contribution is always recognized or acknowledged and I'm not even sure that a volume such as this, welcome though it is, can do that contribution justice.
