Who is more important, the composer or the performer? Please, someone answer! Give me a sign from above! Anything! (I'll quote from the end of Strauss' final opera, "Capriccio," where poetry and music compete for supremacy): "Your dinner is served." (....diddle diddle dum dum, diddle diddle dum dum, diddle diddle diddle diddle dum dum.) John Smyth