Klarinet Archive - Posting 000450.txt from 2001/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] The worth of things
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:09:17 -0500

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 06:00:29 -0800, leeson0@-----.net said:

> By the way, there is a performance in Salzburg at the end of January
> and I am thinking of going. I already had an email conversation with
> the conductor and there, in the shrine of authenticity in Mozart
> performances, the measure will be left out, not because I inquired,
> but because that conductor, Milan Turkovich, thinks that there is no
> other solution to the problem.

I hope this performance will be as good as ours was.

You notice, Dan, that I regard this issue as relatively trivial,
otherwise I would have invoked my directorship of the performance in
order to assert my own conviction -- which happened, in case you have
forgotten, in this case to coincide with yours. I chose to run the
experiment because there are other more important issues that determine
the worth of a performance.

My 'Sophistry', as you call it, is not sophistry, but my deepest
connection with whatever I have to offer as a musician. And it is
something that I have no intention of relinquishing, whether it agrees
with your judgement or no. I am always prepared to throw it open to
question, but in the end, the whole of me gets to decide.

Tony
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