Len.Fehskens counters:

>So, an architect who repeats a motif is lazy or suffering a lapse in the
>creative process? Repetition is never a legitimate structural device?

Touche Len!  Your argument that repeats are a legitimate creative device
have an equivalent in architecture is not one I will deny.  Conversly, the
selective elimination of repeats by performers is a practice that is also
fait acompli over time and probably just as impossible to repeal by
critical observers.  When one controls the performance one also controls
the interpretation, no matter what you may try of enforce as a composer.

This subject is one of those intellectual battles that can be one, but the
outcome of the war is something else again.

Bernard Gregoire
Hingham, MA