Joel Lazar replies to me on the subject of cuts:
>>Sometimes, believe it or not, they think the passages so weak that the
>>work as a whole suffers. They believe they're doing the composer a good
>>turn. In this era of Composer Knows Best, we find such cuts hard to accept
>>and the acme of arrogance.
>
>Not so fast.....
>
>Who's "they"?
Actually, I was thinking of Bernstein's cut in Copland's Inscapes and
Szell's cut in the last movement of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
>Read my post, please. In this instance-as in most- the case is more
>complex.
I did read it. Very informative. But I wasn't arguing with you. I merely
proposed another historical reason.
Steve Schwartz