At the time of his death, Oliver was in the process of trying to find premises for his proposed museum. He had saved many original scores as well as music dumped by music publishers and colleges. He had also just acquired the earliest known portrait of Charles Groves. I miss him greatly as he had an encyclopedic knowledge of classical music and performance. Any query about anything musical usually led to anecdotes about many well known names, some very amusing and not for publication. He had a talent for making some very ordinary, even banal music sound worthwhile. He had recently started organizing and performing in a series of concerts in the Grand Salon at Drury Lane theatre, sadly interrupted by the Covid crisis.