A couple of years ago I went to see BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performing Haydn's "Creation", and during the interval, I overheard a woman in the audience talking to her friend: "You know, I'm just an old square, but I much prefer this to the more modern stuff". To her, the difference between Haydn and Hindemith was purely a matter of personal preference – if the conversation had been between folkies, it could more likely have been on the lines of "Haydn represents the true face of classical music and twentieth century composers are upstarts who have no place in a concert hall" etc, etc.