William Strother <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>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.

Terrible analogy there.  It takes no intellectual arrogance at all.  It
only takes the ability to perceive that the composer indicated that a
particular passage be repeated, and that I support the composer's
intentions.

-Jocelyn Wang
Culver Chamber Music Series