I have always found it interesting that since the days of early music and medieval music, there has always been a large body of people resistant to the change... the evolution, if you will... of music... Now we have people who are devoted to Rock and Roll that their parents or grandparents found to be so abominable. But they can't stand Rap when its popularity and longevity (since at least 1990) have been well established. Everything new causes resistance. Each change causes resentment. It will probably always be so in music. Yet there is always a forward thinking group or three that looks forward to the new and find ways to make it relevant. Most classical music orchestras around the world could not get away with playing just the old standards anymore. Too many people already demand the new, the modern, the avant garde, the "atonal". I have always looked at those most resistant to changes in music to be the least relevant to what is taking place. I hunger for music from composers daring to make the change. My most listened to CD's are from Henze, Kernis, Carter, and the like. Ray Bayles