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"However, I think that I can speculate on the type of music that will endure 100 years from now. It will be the music that ennobles and uplifts. It will be the music that inspires."

It will all depend, as it does now, on where you live, your education, and social position. It may surprise you to know that the majority of people in the world have never heard of the great classical composers or their compositions.

Believe it or not, they are not all barbarians. Knowledge of classical music isn't required in order to be a good person.

I have to disagree with you. You are trying to focus on the individual, and I am trying to say that there are objective criteria that transcend any particular individual. You can be a good person and listen to heavy metal, just as you can be a good person and shoot heroin. I'm not talking about the person. And I'm not saying that ALL heavy metal is bad, I'm sure you can find exceptions to any rule. I am saying that, objectively speaking, and on balance, the heavy metal screechy depressing crap just really doesn't make that much of a contribution to our society. That's not hateful, and it's not elitist, and I really don't care one way or the other. I'm just trying to make what I believe to be an objective comparison.