Christopher Webber <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>At no point in this debate has Jocelyn given house room to any argument
>allowing practical performers any rights over the material, only - as she
>has now spelt out - responsibilities of service.

At no point?  You haven't been reading very carefully.

>Performance (whether or not we choose to denigrate Malcolm Bilston's
>fastidious and sensitive approach to Mozart repeats) has to be a
>collaboration, not a rite of worship, otherwise we're dead in the
>water.

Collaborating with the composer does not mean ignoring or overruling his
instructions, it means working with them.

-Jocelyn Wang
Culver Chamber Music Series
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