Donald Satz <[log in to unmask]> replies to me: >Jocelyn Wang wrote: > >>The practice of completely ignoring a composer's specific instructions is >>indeed whimsical -- at best. > >To me, "ignoring" indicates that the performing artist did not consider the >instructions or try to determine whether he/she would ultimately observe >those instructions. The fact remains that the artist may well have placed >significant weight on the instructions and still decided not to observe >them. A listener may like or not like what's being done, but to describe >every non-observance of the written score as as act of "ignoring" the >instructions is simply inaccurate without knowing the process used by >the artist which resulted in the non-observance. Whatever the process, and whether one calls it "ignoring" the repeats or "disregarding" them, the result is the same: the composer's intent is being undermined by someone who does not and cannot know the piece as intimately as the composer. Bob Draper <[log in to unmask]> writes: >When all the marked repeats are performed in Haydn, as they are being >done in Hogwood's series, then part of the impact of the work is lost >in my view. The mere fact that Haydn put those repeats in shows that the composer himself disagrees with you. His judgement is to be given a higher value than yours, or anyone else's. -Jocelyn Wang Culver Chamber Music Series Come see our web page: www.bigfoot.com/~CulverMusic