Ian Crisp <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Jocelyn Wang: > >>Wow. The composer's dead, therefore living performers have carte blanche >>to mess up their works any way they darned well please. Oh, yeah, that's >>some reverence for art. > >Where did I mention or even hint at "carte blanche" etc.? That comes >from you, not from me. Of course performers have a responsibility to >the composer, be he dead or alive, that will constrain their freedom. I >thought that was sufficiently blindingly obvious that it did not need to >be spelled out. They also have a responsibility to their audience. This >whole carte-blanche, anything-goes, free-for-all business has been dreamt >up by others, and I should be profoundly grateful to anyone who can show >anything in what I have written that justifies raising it. Your reference to " the crumbling shoulders of the long-decomposed composer who lived his life in a different world" was hardly reverential. As I mentioned in another post, if such specific markings are to be tossed aside on a whim, what is preventing performers from tossing aside equally specific indications, such as dynamics, tempi, or the notes themselves? -Jocelyn Wang Culver Chamber Music Series Come see our web page: www.bigfoot.com/~CulverMusic