William Strother wrote:

>Jocelyn Wang wrote:
>
>>...  I'll settle for agreeing with the composers.
>
>This sounds like Wanda Landowska, who said that anyone else can play Bach
>as they wish, but she plays Bach HIS way.
>
>I think it takes a kind of intellectual arrogance to take any such
>absolutist positions.

Rather different, don't you think, simply following the composer's
directions on one hand, and on the other saying that one's own personal
interpretation of a work is the only one? Repeats are simply following the
road map laid out by the composer.  An interpretation includes too many
variables like tempo, articulation, relative dynamics, rubati, things which
everyone will agree are up to an individual performer.

David Runnion
Mallorca