Kitch or not...?

[pianopoet]

*Hope I spelt kitch write* 

I recently had a heated debate with my ex teacher about the level of kitchness of certain compositions. The main core of the debate was Liszt's transcription of Isoldens Liebestod. She's of he opinion that it is kitch beyond belief. Comments?
Secondly, she thinks that Sibelius's Romance in Db too is common and therefore won't play or teach it.
Now, I want to get other opinions on this. 

[pskim]

It's spelled "kitsch" and I think your ex teacher is way too narrow minded.  As a teacher, no matter what I think of a composition, too well known or "kitsch" may be, I have a duty to teach my student and I won't turn away something if a student wants to learn.

I personally love Liszt's transcriptions.  I'm not saying that they are all terrific but they themselves are another genre of compositional technique.  She might just be a "purist" in music where transcriptions or arragements of other original works rewritten for the piano is just not right.  I couldn't disagree more.

Liszt wrote these trascriptions of operas because not like today, people back then didn't have the media we have now to enjoy all the music in the world.  With trascriptions people were able to get to know what musics in those days were in.

As I said previously, because some pieces are just too well known or "common" that she will not teach is ludicrous to me.  She isn't doing her job as a teacher.