(Originally posted in January 2010)<\/p>\n
Sometimes this happens to be the first question I ask upon meeting someone new.\u00a0 I ask this to a stranger hoping that I don\u2019t have to engage in a small talk which I\u2019m utterly bad at.\u00a0 And I ask myself: what are the odds they say no to that question…?\u00a0 I really don\u2019t get to meet people from outside the music field anyway.\u00a0 They all should have something to say about Bach.\u00a0 What a nice way to skip the small talk and get straight to the substantial conversation!<\/p>\n
You do not find many musicians who are into fishing or football.\u00a0 No, not soccer, I mean American football.\u00a0 Another conversation starter line would be: \u201cwhat instrument do you play?\u201d \u2014 this is indeed a good one, but there\u2019s higher possibility, I think, of my not being able to respond appropriately for the sake of continuous conversation. \u00a0If the company answers \u201cI play the beer-bottle organ\u201d what do I say to that?\u00a0 Since I would be seriously interested in hearing the reason why this person could dislike Bach, my genuine “why not?” could indeed stimulate the conversation. \u00a0For me, that Bach question is the easiest way to pass through the social awkwardness and get to the real exchange.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Originally posted in January 2010) Sometimes this happens to be the first question I ask upon meeting someone new.\u00a0 I ask this to a stranger hoping that I don\u2019t have to engage in a small talk which I\u2019m utterly bad at.\u00a0 And I ask myself: what are the odds they say no to that question…?\u00a0 I really don\u2019t get to meet people from outside the music field anyway.\u00a0 They all should have something to say about Bach.\u00a0 What a nice way to skip the small talk and get straight to the substantial conversation! You do not find many musicians who are into fishing or football.\u00a0 No, not soccer, I mean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,2,9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-about-myself","category-bach","category-blog","category-music","tag-bach","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}