Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-22-18 10:01 <=-

disappoint. The oddest case was Dvorak,
whose opus numbers and symphony numbers you
just can't trust, partially from a multiplicity
of publishers and partially because the composer
just didn't seem to care.

I'd heard that he had made what he considered a disadvantageous
agreement with one publisher, and fooled with his own opus numbers to
make it so that another publisher would be allowed to print something current instead of sending to the first....

I was unclear ... he might have cared about the
financial consequences (and who doesn't), but he
didn't care about the historical record.

Ok, I'll go along with that...

That's the main thing. Someone asked Dr. Suzuki
what his role in education was; the reply was,
I am the head of the largest amateur musician
factory in the world.

Sounds accurate to me. :) Not that it's a bad thing to have amateur musicians.... :)

The movement was suborned by people with greater
ambitions than that (including friends of mine),
which led to a certain sag in musical integrity,
but now the Suzuki and other methods have
integrated into an uneasy amalgamation that
seems to do more good than harm.

There are good aspects of each of the different methods... I can see it possible to do more good than harm... :)

ttyl neb

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