"It does too care who performs it! A rotten performance can ruin a good piece of music."

I think we're arguing on the same side, Allen. Maybe I expressed myself badly or too obliquely. A rotten performance can indeed ruin a good piece of music, and if it does I'm not going to like it or play it on my CD even if a genius or two composed it.

All this Genius stuff is only good for Talking About music & has nothing to do with appreciating it or performing it.

A library where I worked had a great many shelves of commentary on Shakespeare. You can get all his extant works in one thick volume, and they're just as good (or bad) without knowing if he was thought to be a genius, or gay, or Bacon.

clint

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