Steve Schwartz writes:

>There is indeed music that has its adherents - Reger, Alkan, Josquin,
>Ockeghem, Obrecht, Satie, Koechlin, Thomson, Shapero, Piston, Fine,
>Holmboe, Schmidt - which seems the property of a very small group.
>Yet, it doesn't occur to anyone - at least I haven't heard it here -
>to denigrate this work as Snobmusik.

And just as importantly, neither does it occur to anyone to criticise those
who don't belong to these very small groups as "closeminded", "museum
goers", "top forty lovers", etc..

len (who partakes of 11 of the 13).