Guilty musical pleasures?

[Rev. Rye]

Classical music is my guilty pleasure, because very few younger people listen to it very much. Indeed the average listener on ABC classical fm is around 60 years old or so. Right now I am really into the Romantic era of classical music which includes composers such as Schubert, Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz among others.

You think Chopin is obscure? I'd hate to see what you'd think when you hear some Stockhausen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pzeXBuzl8Q

I did not say Chopin is obscure.

Never underestimate the ignorance of the general public, if you were to ask who was Chopin to a lot of people. The reply from a large number of people would be WTF is Chopin.

Yeah, well, at any rate, my taste in classical is leaning heavily towards the 20th century music which is very, very, obscure and very few people would listen to a lot of them. I mean, if you made those people listen to the piece I linked to (it's called "Stimmung,") I think that there's a very good chance that a lot of people would question whether or not it even counts as music. They might find Chopin's waltzes dull, but at least they'll recognise that it is, technically music.