Schmuck

We can think of no more appropriate word to characterize this postmodern twit/hypocrite and those who think as he does.

[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.

Although Rieu's thinking in this case may be just a tendentious matter of good business much in the same way that it may be just a matter of business when a Mafia don orders a hit on a longtime faithful friend, it's thinking sadly emblematic of our postmodern era.

O tempora! O mores!

RTWT here.

(Our thanks to ArtsJournal for the link.)