There is an unfortunate tendency to compartmentalise rather than to see art as a totality. The elitist view of art considers that high art – whatever that is – is in some way superior to any other form. The origins of some of the great Russian musical works of Borodin and Tchaikovsky were in the vernacular. They came from Russian folk dances. Some people believe that art has to be remote from the ordinary community, that in some way it has to be elevated into the grand opera house and kept away, behind closed doors, from the general populace, which is totally wrong. This is not how is should be, but, unfortunately, that is sometimes the case.