We are doing our best to ensure that Slipped Disc is free to all readers. Yuja Wang, Gramophone's "Young Artist of the Year" 2009, hearkens to the no-holds-barred pianistic sensations of the 19th century "Whereas many pianists try to dominate this set of variations, she worked with it. So- good for her and everyone! Finally, I am amused by the fact that certain commenters here describe her as beautiful naturally, de gustibus non est disputandum, but THIS is your idea of beautiful woman ? But I absolutely detest her taste in choosing what to wear on the stage of a classical music concert. I appreciate your original article was for The Critic which is aimed at a particularly reactionary audience but surely in the third decade of the 21st century an artist can wear whatever they feel good in? How sad to be such a prig and miss out on so many joys in life. Thats on you. However, if your eye has somehow complemented what has entered your ear and brain to process, how could that accompaniment be so horrible?!? . When she appears on stage and walks to the piano, I obviously notice the way she looks which often is very attractive, but sometimes not so much. It expands her bank account but diminishes her as an artist. There is ample historic evidence that Liszt never showed more skin than was absolutely necessary, that is: on the stage. SHE organize everything! Clothing is a lot about styling, you know, put juxtaposing things next to each other that are extremely interesting that have not been done before. The examples in the Guardian piece are not the same. Pretty please? Yuja Wang has lived on her own, pursuing a career as a concert pianist, since she . Nah.. Some of the crowd, as Ive noticed, from watching her performances online, is stifling in thier gaze, and I wonder how they remain expressionless obviously, theyve seen too much, and perhaps feel they know enough about music not to show gratitude for her efforts displayed out on the stage, in part for their auditory pleasure. You want ride on a merry-go-round of semsntics, have fun. Wangs clothing is a marketing tool that indeed distracts from her performance. She probably ran to the Acela. She played with urgency, brilliance, color, energy, and emotion. She fills concert halls, and she appears to understand that concerts are, after all, a form of entertainment, so there is nothing wrong with adding a touch of glamour and showmanship. The agony of the agony article is from reading it. Also, Yuja Wang hides in plain sight in her livery. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times. Pianist Yuja Wang on Thursday and Saturday broke into Bartok and helped the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra reach new heights. Yuja Wang and Her New York Marathon. They are not occasion-appropriate. I just heard Yuja: Beet, Schoenberp, Ligeti, Scriabin, Albeniz, Kapustin, mostly magnificent. There were many, and still are some, who stand out in virtue of their supreme artistry. Some people consider prostitution as a venerable job like architecture or poetry, both like prostitution with a long history of thousands of years and stretching back to the dawn of civilization. I rather enjoy it. The rest of the interview was about music, so obviously the quote was for clickbait purposes. She comes as a gorgeous brilliant musician both in performance and looks. To answer the question, Why? Because she can. How refreshing. Shes given many performances dressed in beautiful full-length gowns, but no mention of this in this testosterone-filled comments section. Ive try to close my eyes to avoid all the clowning/japery/drollery of Dudamel on Stage, but in his case the music is the biggest problem ever. Good! No, sir.she is your *honoured* guest! 18 [HD] Peter Chen 2.0 14.7K subscribers Subscribe 479K views 1 year ago BARBICAN CENTRE London Symphony Orchestra conducted by. The body has no place here.. I really dont understand why people care about her clothes. Surely her performance of that on the piano would be truly amazing. This sort of attitude is killing classical music. And Thank You for YOUR contribution to music in Manhattan and music in general with your delightful playing. . I think you mean some of her male listeners. Macys is rife with size 3 and 4 womens apparel. This is obviously a hard topic. I cannot understand the big deal with her dresses at all. In some eastern countries the dress code is prescribed for musical safety reasons: http://subterraneanreview.blogspot.nl/2015/08/beethoven-in-iran.html. The people criticize this gifted musician are just jealous. Ridiculous. Close your eyes and think about England. She knows that concertizing is, finally, show biz and plays it to the hilt, in every way. MP3 Music. If she were wicked smart she would give one interview, stating her attire being a feminist statement. Your comment makes no sense unless you meant to say Yuja Wang is a prostitute by profession. Yuja Wangs clothing is unsensitive and disrespectful, thus it poses some dificulties if you are supposed to talk about it in a sensitive and respectful way. I actually finished the article all the way to the end to see if I could find something important. Anyway, I dont think Wang is equal to Argerich at the same age. She celebrates the works of Beethoven and Brahms, and she also makes no apology for the clothing she wears while performing those works. I was there and the people loved her. However, she is in the way to do it. The smile on her face looking at people staring her reveals everything. In my twenties, I'd. Perhaps, this type of dressing up makes concert life more enjoyable, or even fun for her. Performed by the same people capable of good and horrific evil as the next people, even those on Sunset Boulevard. I am 1,60 myself and have NEVER needed anypedal extensions on stage! Ive also always loathed concert dress suits, tails, ties ghastly ridiculous, uncomfartable garb, but for the music im willing to accept this abomination! Just close your eyes and listen to it. This drew wild cheers from the Carnegie audience. The whole orchestra is the star, you prick. etc. Pianist Yuja Wang absolutely destroys her page turner in this painfully hilarious concert video. Wang stands transfixed in her skin-tight fuchsia minidress and oversized glam-girl sunglasses, her outfit popping out against the crowd of straw visors and denim shorts. And that concertmaster can trip over his own sexist drivel on his way to the dustbin of history. Yuja was just a soloist for the Berliner Philharmoniker on their Asian tour and next March she is soloist for the New York Philharmonics in Beijing and Tokyo. However, I let my ear be the judge when it comes to musical performances. Sunset Boulevard? She brightens up the World! https://slippedisc.com/2022/04/swedish-opera-fires-serial-alleged-molester/. Post-intermission Ms. Wang likes to wear something more revealing. This narrative needs to change, not least because either sexualising or ignoring women's clothing diminishes their agency as artists. I would like to see her in concert where the orchestra suddenly stops playing, grabs her, and gang bangs her right on top of the piano in front of the audience. Who would not want to make a splash with an outfit. Wang Yuja attended Beijing s Central Conservatory of Music and Calgary s Mount Royal College, Alberta, Canada, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA. Yuja Wang is turning 37 in . Chopin: Sonates 2,3. Yuja Wang is an excellent pianist who understands the mechanisms of celebrity. The reason she chooses to dress that way is, quite simply, because she can just like a child who will eat nothing but candy, if left unsupervised. Really! Mind you, judging by some of the comments here, her strategy for getting attention for all the wrong reasons works shes turned herself into a sex object, and that is sad. Claudio Abbado conducts Prokofiev and Mahler - With Yuja Wang. and arbitrariness. THIS REVIEWER AND ANYONE WHO AGREES WITH HER IS A TOTAL DUMB ASS. Yuja Wang is the measure of all things in the entire world of classical pianists. She is not a good pianist: she is a GREAT pianist! What: Pianist Yuja Wang and Gustavo Dudamel conclude its Rachmaninoff festival with the last two piano concertos and "The Bells". Get a life, children. Excellent comment. And I wish that the dresses she likes would have aligned with the dresses no one points out, but now it is not so. I love this artist and I adore her couture! Yuja Wang & Gautier Capuon present new recording of Rachmaninoff's Sonata for Piano and Cello. Super-looking female figures come in many shapes & sizes. She doesnt have it. Fashionable and outspoken, Ms. Wang, who at 25 is one of the most gifted pianists of her generation, would make Mahler and Chanel equally proud. The way she goes about playing it, yes. Ive been there. Dont count on seeing her with NOD anytime soon, she is accustomed to world class venues, orchestras, conductors, and audiencesand none of the were there last night. There is a certain decorum related to the performance of art music. I listened to YW live once, it confirmed what I implied and that was my last one. Why does our industry complain about Ms Wang when she flaunts the physical gifts she has along with her wonderful musicianship. I hope Im wrong, but why not list what you find invalid in her career? This has really got disgusting; I expect the controversy is to her benefit though. And even if they were, why care? The notion that what we see might distract from music, rather than shape our experience of it, stems from a centuries-old division of body and mind, physicality and rationality, that claims classical music as purely cerebral stuff. Just in: Tchaikovsky Competition is expelled from world body, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQ4JicUs1A, Spanish violinist wins Berlin Philharmonic seat. YujaWang.com 1993: Yuja started playing piano at six-years-old. What a bunch of crap! And thats just a small portion of her enormous repertoire. She stated that to her, it was a matter of mood. Nope. If she had dressed conventionally all along, she might have been able to make a decent living as a concert pianist on the basis of her considerable talent, but she would not have become the celebrity that she is now. Simply stated, its too much! But it is as much a driver of her celebrity as is her playing. This concert curated by Nico Muhly is supported by the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Endowment for New Music. Stay home prudes. Two camps are bitterly opposed and will never agree. And eventually, we could possibly see her with blonde or cotton-candy streaks in her hair. Surely that comment should have been directed towards Steinway Fanatic, not Harold Lewis. I must also say that Im pretty fed up with this websites continued reporting on topics like this. Yuja Wang plays Mendelssohn (LIVE) Worth mentioning again, her outfits are still fairly conservative by the standards of many popular female musicians today (Kesha, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, etc.). Its just you and your kind. Yuja Wang does not dress like a whore, as some in this string have alleged. She has lived in North America since she was 11 and spent her formative years there. A nuns habit (for Liszt) or a misogynistic burkini? Known for her charismatic artistry and captivating stage presence, Yuja Wang is one of the world's most celebrated pianists. Review: Yuja Wang tackles a massive new piano concerto without breaking a sweat Joshua Kosman October 14, 2022 Updated: October 16, 2022, 10:31 am Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen (left), composer. Yuja Wang had different clothing for each of Rachmaninoff's four piano concertos, and his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini," which she performed in a marathon at Carnegie Hall on Saturday.. It would be interesting to listen to her and Vanessa Mae (not sure about the spelling) playing the Kreutzer Sonate.