In The Music Goes Round and Around Basil Tschaikov (known to his friends and colleagues as Nick) chronicles from many different perspective how during his lifetime the many technological developments and changes in society have affected the music profession, music industry, music loving audiences and music itself. During his unusually wide-ranging career of more than 60 years as a performer, teacher, administrator and for many years a negotiator on behalf of musicians in most branches of the profession, he describes these changes as seen from the inside by a musician who has recorder his observations in the way that a location photographer would aim to capture the diverse elements of life around him or her.