Launch: 31 Dec 2021:

The index below is the drop of 120 issues initiating the HMR Project in 2021 which comes in two constellations, classical and modern recording. The VF History which I use for notes approaches 2700 musical profiles so the big premiere below comes to about 4.44% of VF. Written from May to November 2021, artists were selected for organizational reasons, as well as to lend some indication of where HMR will be heading: all about the western hemisphere from early classical to artists found on a commercial issue by 1970. Genres were something lopsided in this first drop due to emphasis on earlier time periods.

This update in November 2022 is occasioned by accomplishing about 10% of the VF History with a drop of Torelli, Roy Brown and Jimmie Noone, requiring about a year and half of long days since May of 2021 (excepting December busy otherwise). If my math is right I'm looking at quite a few years to finish the remaining 90%. In the meantime I'm keeping to a chronological procedure through classical, currently at the hem of high baroque about 1600 years from where we started in the Middle East. In modern recording we're well into the acoustic period of the Roaring Twenties in popular, jazz and blues. Chronological emphasis on early music, however, has led to losing touch with other genres and periods. There being 31 sections to Modern Recording in the VF History, I'm now proceeding through HMR as a trident of classical, modern recording and early jazz until I better catch up to at least electronic recording in 1926.

HMR is otherwise sectioned into nine categories not counting boogie woogie. The three major are Classical, Jazz and R&B-Rock. Less extensive are Black Gospel, Blues, Folk, Country (C&W), Latin and Popular. All profiles below share the same initial launch date of New Year's Eve 2021.

Update July 2023: The HMR Project had to be discontinued in April 2023 per technical issues with the server. Made aware of exhaustion as well, I've taken the summer off. Problems with tech point to the necessity of finally trading in Microsoft's Expression Web for, probably, Adobe's Dreamweaver. I started this site (Viola Fair) above twenty years ago with MS Front Page, to which the flip of the coin was Dreamweaver. I might have saved a lot of trouble if had I gone with Dreamweaver instead. But I perceived it to be more for professional webmasters than an amateur thinking only to chalk five slates (pages) of presence onto the internet blackboard concerning freelance back-of-book indexing (my gig back then). I didn't know what the else at the time and went with the less expensive option. Though Expression Web and Dreamweaver are a lot alike, they're different enough to make the switch a painstaking process involving this website entire. The new Viola Fair will be much alike, though altered as well, going online sometime in autumn of 2023. I'll then resume HMR where we left off, with several months of weekly issues on baroque and the Roaring Twenties yet to address.