Sentence:  Instead of her old confidence in the simplest , purest , most moving musical expression , Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride - that subtle vanity that sometimes <WSD>misleads</WSD> a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra , some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions