The problem was figuring out how to present "House of Flowers" in a version musically faithful to what was heard on Broadway on opening night.

Within a week she sent me that exquisitely beautiful as well as faithful version which appears in the appendix to our Church Hymnal.

"I originally did a draft that was basically a faithful version of the book," Mr. Shyamalan said.

The third adaptation was made for TV in 2010; this is the version most faithful to the novel.

But most musicians today would judge that the process should begin with the most faithful version of the composer's intent that scholarship can muster.

In one sense, the answer to the second question - whether I wouldn't have preferred a more faithful version of the novel - is easy, too.

Their influence can be seen in items from a number of weaving groups, but more faithful versions are now usually confined to Chinese rugs.

There were strictly faithful versions, versions that took more liberties with the novel, and at one point even a feminist version.

I therefore think that we should stay with the vote on the basis of the German text, which is the faithful version.

Orpheus Descending, a more faithful version starring Vanessa Redgrave was made in 1990.