James Kearney wrote:

>I'll now play Satie's "Vexations" - with all the repeats.  But I'm
>seriously convinced that I should leave out the three hundred and twenty
>fourth and the six hundred and twenty fifth repeats for artistic reasons.

Oh, that's not necessary.  It's now established for this work a "quorum"
number of 424+1 repeats.  If you reach it, the performance will be
admissible.  You can paly it also in four easy pays of 250 repeats each
(there's an additional cost due to current interest rate and taxes).

Pablo Massa
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