Kenneth DeLong is a professor of music history at the University of Calgary, Alberta. He has published extensively on Romantic Czech music. He is also a music critic for the "Calgary Herald" and "Opera Canada". Recent publications include chapters in "The Unknown Schubert", edited by Barbara M. Reul and Lorraine Byrne Bodley (2008), and "Henry Irving: a Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager", edited by Richard Foulkes (2008).