Bill Pirkle to Kevin (Sutton?):

>>There has always been a distinction between the music for the masses and
>>the music for the cognicenti.
>
>I also agree with this frank albeit snobbish sentiment.

Often has been said that classical music lovers (and anything related to
CM) are "snobbish".  However, almost every branch of popular music has its
own "connoisseurs" (and us --the rest of mankind who don't know anything
about polka-- are the masses).  Also "erudite" is an adjective applied to
CM, and all we know that "erudite" is a bad word nowadays.  However, I
know a lot of jazz and rock erudites.  Here in Buenos Aires, we have an
"Academia Nacional del Tango", a bunch of lovely grandpas, who are hourly
correcting and improving a monster dictionary of "lunfardo", just as the
Royal Spanish Academy does.

Pablo Massa
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