Date:         Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:41:40 -0700
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Mike Richter wrote:
>I'm sorry, but your standard is set impossibly high. After all, in few commercial recordings is there attention to fidelity of the performance. Engineers routinely correct little errors - like flatting a note - and enhance the sound in other ways to improve on nature or to satisfy the performer's image of himself/herself.

My wife and I once got to rehearse and sing in an orchestra/choir performance conducted by Andre Kostelanetz.  Our choir director told us that Kostelanetz said he had a problem listening to LP recordings, because after the engineers spliced all the takes together, the work was 'too perfect'.  No real orchestra could play that well.

   Ron Fial