Parsing Andre

Violinist/showman Andre Rieu “insists that musical categorisation is meaningless; that there is no difference between classical and non-classical music, or high art and low art… He depicts his critics as members of a stuffy musical elite with narrow aesthetic tastes, yet regularly demeans in interviews music that is not to his taste and classical musicians who choose not to perform in his manner.” But then, Rieu isn’t as much a musician as a profit-driven industry.