Denis Fodor:

>As long as we're with the restaurant trope, let's try it this way: the
>canon of classical music is what a Michelin three-star restaurant is to
>fancy dining.

This suggests a standard of recognized greatness as the criterion for being
in your canon.  If so, that leaves the problem of unrecognized greatness,
in addition to the matter of the satisfactions of non-Michelin-approved
tastes, which you acknowledge, and thus your canon may be as harmful to the
interests of listeners as it is helpful.

Jim Tobin