Does he also makes this "Bruh" sound? I find this very confusing.

I'll arrive in Minneapolis on November 5th at noon time. So, maybe I will come.

Vielleicht die Kurrentschrift nicht richtig gelesen...

I've just looked at the profile. Must be a Freud disciple. No way around it.

I happen to have a large bushy tail and I love acorns. Do I have to worry?

Thank you for the thoughtful answer. And again, my position is not tooo far away from yours.

Best of luck with bringing world music to the people. It's so important work.

Also, calling people out as literally hating/fearing foreigners--and in my experience, people who say stuff like that are most of the time of the cosmopolitan, well-intentioned kind--feels just over the top.

I think I got a good picture on how clueless Western orchestra musicians can be when faced with a different culture. But I don't like this proclivity to emphasize difference since music can be--IMHO--a platform on which these differences can be overcome.

For quite some time, I worked for an orchestra and my job was to organize concerts in which classical musicians were encountered with musicians of different cultures. Wonderful experiences for all of those who were involved. This is why this is an important issue to me.

Imho, it's not xenophobic. "Western music is the universal language" would be. As you explained, "communication" across musical cultures can be difficult (although not impossible). Rather, the statement is a categoric mistake, equivalent to "language is the universal language".

Wow, I didn't know that Jake Johnson has such cool – I should say: Beethovenian – hair!