"but musically, it needs the treatment of more modern interpretations to turn it into music. That way, it can reach a far wider audience."
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That may be viewed as a desirable objective. OTOH, is there not arguably much to be said for appeal to a narrower but more knowledgeable and discriminating audience? Over-popularisation can surely be qualitatively counter-productive. Both approaches have their merits, it seems to me. Are they in fact mutually incompatible, or are there not different occasions where it would be appropriate for either one to take precedence over the other?

I have always considered the fact that the word "élitist" should have acquired lip-curlingly pejorative overtones to be one of the more negative symptoms of the decline of of our society.

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