Yuja Wang (Chinese: ; pinyin: Wng Yji; born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist. Remember we are not selfish and we get MOCKED for wearing masks, we wear it not mainly to protect us but the society as well (prevention, just look at the statistics). Such letter should be prepared and issued by the presenter outlining all the details of such visit by the artist and pass to the artist, so the artist status is crystal clear. Membership benefits will include a daily digest of stories delivered to your email, and occasional exclusive offers from our partners. If I were Yuja Wang . He kept on playing. People who actually had contact with others infected are placed in quarantine for two weeks! She should know better, but again, I guess she is fussy because she is a primadonna, and didnt get the audio treatment that a member of the royalty, like herself, deserved. I dont understand why the person whose comments you published, the Canadian conductor, didnt open her ears and hear what the rest of us heard on Friday. 2. World-renowned Chinese concert pianist who has performed with groups like Tonhalle Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. Yuja @YujaWang . By Janet Malcolm August 29, 2016 Yuja is keenly awareas many. Did they torture her with water or did they use the Spanish boot ? MAGA and KAG! They grew increasingly resentful. Everything I do on stage is about connecting with people. He publishes regularly and writes occasionally. Yuja Wang is ravishing in Magnus Lindberg's new piano concerto review 10 Jan, 2023 Financial Times "Lindberg ['s] third piano concerto was tailored for Yuja Wang's dazzling virtuosity; on Thursday she played this formidable score from memory and sounded commanding throughout, from thunderous assertion to caressing lyricism. Pity. Nevertheless, Yuja still gave a stunning recital in Vancouver. Lang Lang and Yuja Wang are surely our two most popular and trend-setting classical pianists. "It is difficult for me to share this with all of you, but given the circumstances, and harmful speculation and criticism being shared online and elsewhere, I feel it important that the following is made public. My recital tour will continue, and I look forward to bringing my program to the audience in San Francisco tonight, and on to New York. As, I suspect, most of us would. The former Pianistcover star felt she had no other option but to perform in sunglasses in order to cover her 'visibly red and swollen' eyes. Sunglasses, though yeah, thats going to attract attention, especially without further explanation from the performer. Vince, it is one thing to experience racism, another thing to be subjected to screening on public health grounds. Too much focus on what musicians look like & wear focus on the music. . . It is recommended before booking a flight ticket; make sure you are aware of the status of the coronavirus outbreak in your destination. And heres an Instagram clip from the recital: The queen blessed our city with her presence last night.. it was my 1st concert ever and how special that it was the amazing @yujawang.official! Concern yourself with, I dont know, climate change? All loaded phrases. . Of course, I wasnt at the concert, so I dont know how I would have felt. And she had a traumatic experience at your airport. pleazzz.traumatic is whats happening to that Chinese tennis player right now.cant believe someone at her level would be that delicate, surely she had music teachers that were far worse? . Yuja began playing piano at age six, and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-coronavirus-flight-montreal-vancouver-1.5473283. My main concern in that moment was to give the best performance I possibly could, and not to allow the audience to be distracted by my swollen eyes or visibly shaken demeanor. Chapeau to Yuja for playing (with sunglasses to hide her swollen eyes from the audience!) 10 February 1987 (age 35) Born In Beijing, China Yuja Wang (Chinese: ; pinyin: Wng Yji; born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist. By the age of 21 she was already an internationally . Lesson #5: Jump at every opportunity. Totally understandable why one would be still be rattled by that when it came time to perform. I somehow played the best recital on that tour! She lived 2400 miles from me. Why was she detained? In her post, Wang calls out the media for spreading harmful speculation and criticism. Madonna has gone on stage two hours late. . Why are we musicians held to a different standard? finding practice time, trying to eat well somewhere near the hall, getting used to an unfamiliar instrument in a matter of hours (most of the time they are not great) and, later, dealing with critics who, of course, know the mind of a dead composer better than the artist up there doing it and are determined to have the last word, often published before the artist has even boarded the plane. Yuja is human too. Like the usual Carnegie Hall cognoscenti I heard Horowitz last year, he was SO MUCH BETTER then (an actual quotation). I certainly would have canceled if it had happened prior to the concert. Read more: Vote for your favourite music to win 1,000 >. Nonsense. Instead of seeing bigotry in every face I see when I leave my home in the city to less diverse locales, I see my fellow human beings, weak and imperfect, but almost always good at heart. On the other hand, travellers are being subjected to close scrutiny on entering countries these day due to a health emergency of which she must be aware. I have no idea who Ms Miller is; she is certainly entitled to her own interpretation of Ms Wangs demeanor but she does not speak for the rest of the audience, any more than do the internet prattlers who feel the need to offer up their absurd speculative opinions even though they werent at the concert. You went to a concert, YOU DESERVE TO BE ENTERTAINED. Thank you. What is important is she didnt fawn enough over her fans. This is the dumbest thing Ive read in months. The primitive may suggest Yuja Wang as being an privileged individual enraged She was treated shabbily. Im of Asian descent and am ALWAYS pulled aside for extra screening at airports in spite of having a global entry card. She may be tiny in stature and on stage her slinky dresses are clearly meant to thrill. As a first step we encourage you to take membership at US$79/59 a year, or $165/125 for three years. Ms. Millers comments about COVID-19 are a nasty distraction. Just in case, here is another link describing her recent concert tour of China, with the Oct. 30 Wuhan concert date identified. Let's Go! All she would need to do to induce intense questioning would be to say something stupid like Im here to give a piano recital (implies paid employment)and the immigration officials are off to the races. Thank you to everyone who has sent or shared words of support during this difficult time. , I look forward to Tania Millers next performance as a conductor, with Yuja Wang as soloist. See, Im being petty and trivial, and my tone is mocking, juvenile, immature, and unprofessional. By the age of 21, she already was an internationally recognized concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. What a night!! She needs to go away, period. Just putting that out there. Yuja Wang is the 25-year-old Chinese pianist revamping the classical music scene with her tight, short, colorful dresses. Once you know what happened and if you can imagine being humiliated for traveling while Asian, surely youd appreciate the effort it took to go on and play the recital apparently in superb form, even if her body language was not to your liking. . Not helpful for our industry and not even actual journalism. And she definitely should apologize to the paying audience. Find tickets for Yuja Wang in Vancouver on SeatGeek. Have you any idea how many borders Yuja Wang crosses in a year? Pianist Yuja Wang, shown in an earlier photo, surprised listeners during a recent Orchestra Hall recital. You obviously never went to an Elton John concert or a Roy Orbison concert. All you can do is write hack reviews. So, please, show a bit of respect for artists, most of whom never even hint at what they have to put up with before walking out there at 7.30 and being world class. I do know, what it feels like to play the piano in front of an audience. I was then released, giving me very little time to travel to the Chan Centre for the PerformingArts. Many are good, some are great, but none achieve her consistent level of artistic brilliance and innovative virtuosity. Very disrespectful of her to wear the glasses. Yuja Wang brought the requisite star power and overt glamour that nearly filled Disney Hall on Friday night, as the astonishing Chinese pianist reunited with simpatico conductor Gustavo Dudamel . Susan, thank you for your beautiful and empathetic and supportive post!!! It wasnt about Ms. Wangs performance, it was about your emotions, wasnt it? Especially with Yuja Wang. Although I was traumatized by what happened, I was determined not to cancel the recital, but to go ahead with the performance and not to let the audience down, which included my dear teacher Gary Graffman. They have safe little sedate jobs. Poor little wretched man. . I know what you mean, since Ive hardly ever had any, Im glad the concert went well. . Of course I dont doubt the interrogation that ensued was an unpleasant experience nonetheless. As each piece ended, there were sighs of appreciation from the audience, extended applause, and acclaiming shouts. Miss Wang has put together a program of many short piano pieces and she has chosen to leave the stage between the pieces and then appear again. Believe me, getting into Canada is no picnic for anyone, its a miracle anyone goes there on vacation at allthe Voice of Experience. She might be thinking that what was formerly just a royal pain and the price to be paid for maintaining one of the busiest touring schedules, will potentially become a living nightmare of more interrogations, delays, and missed connections. Your understanding of the term socialist is clearly limited to your ability to spell the word. I am Canadian of Chinese descend, never in my mind I thought of the racial issue until this pandemic, and we just feel Targeted. (Fadil Berisha) Not long after the brilliant pianist . She was born in Beijing. . Based on your logic, US citizens should be detained anywhere first of all. Everything I do on stage is about connecting with people. Thinking Big: Yuja Wang. And when one Has To, money (another favorite argument for the cynics) is not the motivation. This shows me how a narrowminded personality you must be.. As a concert presenter/promotor, I would be curious to know 1) Did the presenter apply for a proper working visa for the artist to work legitimately and 2) if the artist has hold on any kind of invitation letter to perform proving that she is coming to the city to perform and be able to present such letter to the immigration on request? All tickets are 100% guaranteed. . Yuja Wang is simply amazing from a technical perspective, but her playing is very self-regarding, at times even un-musical. I was left extremely shaken by this experience. The conditions of the Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, who is wanted in the U.S. on fraud charges, are even more luxurious than previously known. . My recital tour will continue, and I look forward to bringing my program to the audience in San Francisco tonight, and on to New York. Players who operate at that level do so Because They Have To (I write this well mindful that it will be misunderstood). Probably wouldve been best if shed briefly addressed the audience and explained she was rattled from just going through airport security heck, And why dont I start with a piece not on the printed program to get my head back into the music, before launching into what sounds like a perfectly well-rendered recital? They still have no idea how it got to Italy. Any it was a great performance. It would never be my intention to snub or disengage with an audience, she said. I did not have your name until now. Was she questioned in connection to the coronavirus matter? This research letter from JAMA is four days old. 3 in C Major." It is a shame that you have been subjected to this. Did you do any of that? Then you have the respected conductor condescendingly giving advice to a major artist what she must not forget about music. So, this is on herTania Miller had every right to criticize her antics. Really? On the contrary, disasters could happen, e.g. She was called too impulsive. The glory days of the Hawker Siddeleys and Il-18s and the 707s. In over 50 years of concerts, I have never encountered this behavior. You can't even go to a video of Yuja Wang on youtube without negative comments about what she wears. Browse tickets across all upcoming show dates and make sure you're getting the best deal for seeing Yuja Wang in Vancouver. Well, personal attitude, being cooperative or not cooperative, being humble or arrogant. That should have waved her through, so any further questioning would have to have been based on her ethnicity. Many thanks for the quick add. . Miller went on to offer some advice to Wang: I heard later that she had trouble with the Canadian border getting into Canada. My carry-on luggage was opened and contents spilled out on the floor. Ever heard Kissin, Sokolv, Argerich, Trifonov, Volodos, to name just a few ? For pianists, that means dealing with the modern nightmare of travel, jet lag, exhaustion, lugging cases around, My audiences and fans sustain and nourish me as an artist. Instead, fucking Trump lets his people die in the thousands. Whats the blowback by a few stirred up Muslims, compared to the trillion dollar war industry of the US! No. When I was dropped off at the venue for my recital that evening, my eyes were still visibly red and swollen from crying. I went to a Kobrin recital when he was not well. Pianist Yuja Wang is celebrated for her charismatic artistry, emotional honesty and captivating stage presence. Reporting that Yuja Wang performed a concert would be like reporting that an accountant did a tax return, or that a composer procrastinated on Twitter. 7.4mm l0.6 25 60100 8 DLC When I was dropped off at the venue for my recital that evening, my eyes were still visibly red and swollen from crying. After childhood piano studies in China, she received advanced training in Canada and at the Curtis Institute of Music under Gary Graffman. Gulf of Tonkin incident anyway, a lot of innocent civilians died). Yuja Wang is a Chinese classical pianist. Her absurd behavior in Vancouver simply proved a point she has already made many times before: she is a performer, not an artist. Want more updates on classical music and opera news and reviews? Following on from Marin Aslops hostile blast, two, The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra has chosen renowned conductor, After a dazzling concert with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Bavarian, Gruesome story in the Daily Mail that convenient. 5. You think you are special, priveleged. He was supposed to hit the little white ball so my, I mean, his team could win, but he didnt hit the little white ball what a lousy baseball player, he looked stupid, his clothes were stupid, he couldnt even hit the ball, what an overrated loser, made me almost regurgitate my ball park franks, I want my money back. Fury?? In spite of being deeply wounded at the border and upset, Ms. Wang proved again to be a SUPREME PROFESSIONAL! That was truly shameful. Dont even start me on US border control, and the lines, and the attitude. The experience resonated long after her first encounter with Tchaikovsky. Thank goodness he did, because he left an amazing legacy of written work as well as recordings of his playing as well as numerous radio projects. There are nearly 1,5 billion Chinese citizens a tiny minority of which may have been affected. Thank you! The music was wonderful. I remember what it was like at Idlewild and Kai Tak and ZFH Tempelhof, or back in the day when I used to shuttle between Leningrad and Loureno Marqus with a refuelling stop at Salisbury. What a load of nonsense. Follow usonFacebook,InstagramorTwitterfor all the latest. A post shared by Hope (@pianowithhope) on Feb 22, 2020 at 9:07am PST. Have these authors have never been harassed, let alone DETAINED, because of their race? Syria? The petty destructive gossip put forth by Norman Lebrecht is attention seeking and thats it. Were human beings with feelings and most people with any kind of empathy realise that with a live performance, the human element and frailty is part of what you are there for. 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