In 4 months I will be playing Mozart's Concerto in G Major. It is
edited by James Galway. In Galway's edited version, in the first
opening bars (when the flute first comes in) are written with
apositures. I hope that spelling is close enough!! An apositure is a
special grace note that steals half of whatever it is connected to,
and comes on the downbeat in this piece. If anyone knows what I'm
talking about PLEASE help me, because I will be competeing with the
first movement and it's candenza in November with 49 other flute
players in Pennsylvania. We will all be playing the same thing, but
here's the question. Is there ANY reason to think that the grace
notes should be played before the beat? An apositure has no slash
through it like a grace note, so that's how you can tell the
difference.

I do not want to play Mozart wrong, and I know the way I've been
playing it (with the apositures on the down beat so that it's
straight sixteenth's) is correct. But the judges are going to read
AS WRITTEN, and not in the era or judged on the matter that it's
Mozart. And they won't necessarily know the first thing about flute
playing. They could be just music teachers.

This is really hard to explain without the music to show, but please
try to help, and tell me what you've seen in your experience with
this piece.

Thank you!