Ulvi Yurtsever wrote:

>Now suppose you are performing a work by composer C, on whom historical
>scholarship is scarce and there is no consensus on whether he insisted
>on observing repeats in his scores or not.  What makes it a sin, then,
>to adopt a flexibile attitude towards repeats in C's music?

Then I think you would have to give the written indications the benefit
of the doubt.

Dave Runnion