Donald Satz comments about upcoming offerings of jazz and contemporary improvisations of Chopin, and wonders if it is an ill-attempt to redefine the CM landscape: >Further, I notice that these attempts are now connected to terms such as >"programming genius" and "brilliant example" to convey the notion that >the best people are going in this direction. Does any of this remind you >of the Fountainhead? IIRC, in HC Schoenberg's book, "The Great Pianists," composers up to Debussy fully expected their works to be improvised. And I believe this statement was emphasized by italics. So maybe the above is a re-capturing of an overlooked practice? (Not the Jazz improv, of course!) John Smyth (working on his pronoun agreement and plural possessives)