And a stagnant, dying society listens only to music written three hundred years earlier.
What a smug, elitist prick.
There was plenty of great music written 200 years ago.
My Tschaikovsky albums aren next to my Van Halen albums in my CD collection. (Don't really know much about Pantera, considering maybe downloading some now though...didn't realize Dimebag Darrell was considered to be that much of a God). Lots of rock and even metal musicians like and appreciate classical music, and even have had classical training.
However, the clown that wrote this article isn't exactly doing a good job of selling people on classical music.