Karl Miller wrote: >Of course there is a very valid perspective of the notion of letting >the music speak for itself. ... Actually, no. Between dots on a page and a performance there is a musician or musicians, every time a musician plays a piece of music s/he interprets it, maybe in an extraordinarily original way or a very routinely conventional way, but the music cannot 'speak for itself'. Paul Silverthorne Principal Viola - London Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Professor of Viola - Royal Academy of Music London