I lost touch with classical music after I left school apart from the very few signature pieces I still have in my collection (The Planet Suite, 1812, Beethovens 5th etc). I rediscovered orchestral music a few years later after having seen such wonderful sci-fi blockbusters as Star Wars, Alien, Close Encounters etc where I fell in love with orchestral soundtracks. Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, John Barry, Trevor Jones et al will probably go down as last centuries superstar classical composers and may even be placed up there with the big guns one day...