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Symphony no.2 - Jean Sibelius Symphony no.4 - Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony no.5 - Gustav Mahler Symphony no.10 - Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony no.40 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Augh! I was just ready to say what I had was good enough, and now I have to work with this same darn theme for another month?? :P Also, the date it is due says September 31st, but unless I'm remembering wrong, I think it's, "30 days hath September..." :)

Reflecting once again on the question opening this thread ("How does one know...?), I realize that it is largely a question of self-confidence or self-trust (or of being true to oneself). If you enjoy self-confidence/self-trust, if you value being true to yourself above everything else, then you just know that your piece is worthy of performance (provided it succeeds in doing what you intended it to do). You don't need anyone else to tell you whether it is worthy of performance or isn't so. Of course feedback is important, but so is self-belief, belief in one's musical message, one's musical language, one's unique style. It is such self-belief that will make you persist in your unique musical path and to try to pursue it and to allow yourself to develop on that path despite the pressures to veer from it and to conform to the accepted and clichéed norm.

I would rather ask myself: How does one know when one's composition is worthy of repeated perfomances? You can have your compositions performed if you have anybody willing to do it. Heck, you can do it yourself. The analysis usually comes after the perfomance. The response from audience, critics, perfomers. And then the question makes its prominence.