First he underpinned the Gewandhaus Quartet at the Barbican's new Milton Court concert hall in Brahms's String Quartet No 1.
He points to scientific research – by Aachen University, the University of British Columbia and the Max Planck Society – that he claims underpins all his vivid descriptions, but he writes as a conservationist and admits that much is still unknown.
There's a nostalgia to the way Buchbinder talks of the Vienna of his youth, and he openly laments the loss of an older cosmopolitanism that he says underpins all great Viennese music.
It embodies a set of virtues—"learning and scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain"—which, he said, underpins Asia's economic success.
"The authenticity our product has won on the field of play" as a leading brand of baseball apparel, he added, underpins the appeal to consumers who have not come any closer to a stadium than a seat in front of a TV set.
In a recent speech in Brussels, John Major, Britain's prime minister, contrasted the "enterprise model" that he claimed underpinned recent British economic success with the "European social model" that he blamed for continental Europe's high unemployment.
In it, he condemned the "corporate liberalism" — American economic interests disguised as anti-Communist benevolence — that, he argued, underpinned the Vietnam War.
CEO Jeff Bezos has long listed fashion as one of two key areas he sees underpinning his sizable ambitions for Amazon's ecommerce empire (food being the other).
Four years later he wrote The Invention of the State of Israel, an equally polemical attack on the set of "myths" that he believes underpin Jewish claims to the land of Israel.
And Blunkett said that, while he was opposed to statutory underpinning, he would accept some kind of legal oversight.
