[George M. Middius]

Ludo said:

You're conflating artistic merit with emotional involvement. Great
classical music has the former, but all music that one enjoys engenders
the latter. If your "preference" only leads you to one kind of music no
matter what your state of mind, then "snob" is not the right term to
describe you

Middius says:

You don't really need to repeat the part you're replying to, you know.

Thank you for remaining urbane. In self-defence I'll say that most
rock is preferable to most pop that preceded it. But I confess that
there are very few rock records I can listen to ( I mean LISTEN) for
longer than 20 minutes. But there are a few.

Ah -- a distinction between "listen" and "LISTEN".

As for catholic (i.e. broad) taste how many of the pop listeners go to
chamber music concerts?

You'd have to ask them, but the premise of your question establishes
with certainty that they do not attend exclusively either popular or
classical performances.

I don't follow your distinction between "artistic merit" and
"emotional involvement". Surely they are indistiguishable for any
single listener.

I commend to you the distinction between "listen" and "LISTEN".