Steve Schwartz writes, in reply to Jocelyn Wang:

>>And name one composer whose reputation has been ruined by respecting his
>>score.  I won't hold my breath waiting for the answer.
>
>Any composer, right?  OK, Andrew Lloyd Webber.

So, am I to take as implicit in this remark that your (or someone else's)
emendations would improve (or manifest more correctly) his reputation?
Don't we (each as individuals) judge composers' merits by what they *have*
written, rather than by what they *coul* (oe should) have written had they
just had a better idea of what we wanted them to write?

Jocelyn and I have not been arguing that what a composer writes is sacred
or perfect in any sense.  What we have been trying to say is that if you
don't play what the composer wrote, fine, admit as much; just don't claim
that you've done is better than what the composer wrote because you know
better than the composer.  Yes, the one thing you *do* know better is what
*you* like, but I have no expectation that any artist should do what I want
unless I'm paying her/him to.

len.