Steve Schwartz wrote:
>We had an incredibly wonderful fight over this some time ago. The
>positions are, essentially, ...
One recurring position I heard was "repeats served a useful purpose when
music was being heard for the first time, but now that the music is so
familiar, they're useless/irrelevant". This is a variation of "the
composer knows best", i.e., "the composer knew best then, but this is now".
len.