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