@@五月メイ-p1r Ignorance is a terribly sad state of affairs. Apparently, the man has never heard that, *_Music is a universal language.”_* The strangeness of Western music, and the Eastern music on Western ears, must have been an issue at the point in history when East met West, and there was so much to learn and to understand, but that was more than 100 years ago! He has also not heard of the great Asian artists from the 1950s, one of whom-Mitsuko Uchida-is still performing and recording! She caused a major sensation with her wonderful art in the 1960s, and won second prize in the famous Polish Chopin International Competition in 1970.