Nothing like ascribing to the Seymour Bernstein "hairpins in the Romantic period are rubato markings, not dynamics" theory and then both struggling to reread Chopin and feeling validated by the places you were already putting a fuckton of rubato

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Nothing like ascribing to the Seymour Bernstein "hairpins in the Romantic period are rubato markings, not dynamics" theory and then both struggling to reread Chopin and feeling validated by the places you were already putting a fuckton of rubato