Who is more important, the composer or the performer?
Please, someone answer! Give me a sign from above! Anything!
(I'll quote from the end of Strauss' final opera, "Capriccio," where poetry
and music compete for supremacy):
"Your dinner is served."
(....diddle diddle dum dum, diddle diddle dum dum, diddle diddle diddle
diddle dum dum.)
John Smyth