AH Challenge: Classical Music Dominates with a Post-1900 POD

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to, with a POD no earlier then January 1st, 1900, make classical music the most dominant form of music in the Western world. You can have the styles change into something more modern or radical, but (if possible) it has to be the preferres choice of the laymen, i.e what rock/pop/hip-hop is in OTL, as well as producing most of the new music being written. Any hope at all?
 
I don't think this would work with anything short of a complete scourging of the musical genre as we know it. There are simply too many different people with too many inherently differing tastes. As long as something new arises, there will be people who like it more than classical music.

More importantly, so many styles of music are simply easier to produce and lend themselves to experimentation better than classical music that it is almost bound to be overrun simply by virtue of people playing around.
 
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