&gt; There was once agreement on what &quot;high culture&quot; was - classic paintings, symphonies, opera, and ballet. Those are the art forms that have stone palaces downtown. Those forms have lost some social significance in the last few decades<p>Which is a great shame, because there is incredible beauty in those art forms that many people nowadays miss completely. All because we somehow gave the high culture&#x2F;classic arts the labels &quot;snobby&quot;, &quot;stuffy&quot;, &quot;boring&quot;, &quot;unintelligible&quot;...