Because classical music is generally far more complex and demanding
than modern pop - it takes a greater degree of intelligence to
understand and appreciate it.

That's true.

I was in the car the other day listening to Radio 3. It took all my
moral strength not to get out and walk home (and I was driving).

When I did get home I was staggered to find on the R3 website that the
syrupy, mushy, hollow medley was Rachmaninov's Symphony no. 2. It could
have been a sententious score from a dishonest and tacky film like
Forrest Gump. Listening to it was like having one's face pushed into a
basin of warmed Coca-Cola concentrate.

Not that I'd really consider late Russian Romanticism to be classical
music, but still, it's by a dead white European and performed by people
dressed all funny.

Daniele
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