Paul,
My statement to which you objected does not represent insensitivity or a casual expression of a passing whim. I have loved classical music all of my life. I earned a degree in music composition in 1976 and sadly wrote plenty of digusting and ugly atonal and avante garde music to get that degree. So while I respect your right to disagree with my conclusions, please do not make the mistake of equating disagreement with your opinion as being insensitive dogma, or simply an expression of what I personally like or dislike.
So you wrote "plenty of disgusting and ugly atonal and avant garde music" huh... is that in the pejorative, or are you regretting that you didn't write some beautiful and good atonal music with which to earn your degree? I bet I know the answer to that one and it probably wont be an admittance that good and great music can be written in said styles. If you are speaking pejoratively, well, I say again, I think it's now more than a little insensitive.
The language you use is inflammatory to people who like to express themselves in what is clearly an aural abomination to you. I have absolutely no problem with you not liking any music beyond your personal aesthetics, but show a little tact when stating as such, otherwise people may come at you on the offensive.
Either way, your words are surely an expression of how you feel or like about music if nothing else.
Paul, I understand that academia has a bee in its bonnet about modernism and it is unfortunate that they may well force students into a creative corner, but disregarding some of the greatest musicians in the last 100 years or so as composers who have spoilt the well and whose music is disgusting and ugly is quite a statement.