Top-notch effort, Jon (I find "effort" an odd word to use here, but that might be due to a language-barrier issue). These retrospectives are among the best I've read anywhere in my 20+ years of being online. Wish I had your gift of coherency and eloquence!

Once you're "done" (although it well turn out to be an on-going undertaking, coz these guys probably won't stop writing scores anytime soon), you ought to get this all put together and printed. I'd even say published "properly", but I guess the hassle of getting everybody's (and the five cats') approval and permission won't be quite worth it. (I may, with your permission, print it out for my own private use and putting it on my shelf in a binder or something...)

Again, a big tip of the hat for these marvellous reads.

CK