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Re: To Be HIP or Not To Be
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Bob Draper <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:20:57 +0000
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 Johan van Veen wrote:

>Isn't it funny that HIP opponents who always tell us how little we know
>about the wishes and intentions of composers of the past, seem to know for
>sure that they would have loved our instruments, had they known them? Isn't
>that called 'projection' in psychology?

No it's called delusion.

Better to apply the little we do know than to ignore it altogether.

Bob Draper
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