On Jan 24, 2008, at 2:32 PM, howard posner wrote: > Are you addressing moi, David? Your remarks follow mine, but they > don't have much to do with them.
Oh, sorry, I thought they pertinent as well as impertinent. At least they were intended to be anyway. ;-) > ...Karamazov's choppiness may be a way to get around the difficulty > by picking up his left-hand fingers early to have them ready for > the next contorted position, but it wreaks havoc with the > polyphonic lines. Whose choppiness? You mean that guy we were not talking about? ;-) ;-) > ...if some conductor rewrote the end of Beethoven's Fifth so that > it ends in C minor instead of C major, he'd get laughed out of the > business for thinking he knows better than Beethoven how the music > should go, and it would have nothing to do with HIP purism. No he wouldn't. You know how conductors tamper with the pieces they conduct. I don't know much about conducting the end of the 5th, but HIP purism has wrought havoc among conductors arguing about the beginning of it, Anyway, the last movement ends on a single note. Actually, it might not sound bad at all as a minor third... David R [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
