Bernard Chasan wrote: >>Suppose that you like an older non HIP version of something - say >>Britten's set of the Brandenberg Concerti. Do you renounce it because >>it is clearly not HIP? To which Don Satz indignantly replied: >My opinion is that only a *jerk* would stop listening to a liked version >simply because it does not approximate some premise of historical accuracy. >Does Bernard really think that we would behave like that? That historical >accuracy takes center stage over musical enjoyment? I don't know where that >idea would be coming from. I trust that true lovers of music would not behave like that, maybe I am creating a straw man. My main point was that the hip status of a particular performance is not forever, as more research is done. Nothing personal, Don. After all, you put me onto Angela Hewitt. Bernard Chasan