In her post, Wang calls out the media for spreading harmful speculation and criticism. But I have no doubt Chinese travellers have been subjected to more than most. She played with urgency, brilliance, color, energy, and emotion. If youve been in Japan or China you would be used to the sight and not make anything of it. 2. Norman Lebrecht attention seeking pianist, one gimmick too far, refused to acknowledge the audience in any way. . Yuja Wang performs a program with works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schoenberg, April 10, 2022. Did you get upset because you didnt get properly entertained? Norman Lebrecht was first to break the story on Slipped Disc, prompting vigorous debate in the comment section about the appropriateness of Wangs demeanour onstage, and Millers subsequent criticism. Madonna has gone on stage two hours late. So stop acting like petulent children. . Totally understandable why one would be still be rattled by that when it came time to perform. You implied it was a cheap stunt. When the audience continued to clap to bring her back out on stage, she refused. Coming to terms with that fact was one of the major breakthroughs of my life. If he had any dignity he would take this post down. Yes apparently she disappointed one (Tania Miller) but there is no evidence at all that she disappointed many a poster on the original thread who was THERE gave a longish appreciation of the evening and reported plenty of enthusiastic applause, two encores and a wave to the audience. One of the world's most compelling performers, Yuja Wang made her VRS debut in 2008 in the very early stages of her career and has returned twice in the intervening years. Yuja Wang was born on a Tuesday February 10 1987 in Beijing. I think people would have understood if you had cancelled on the day your mother died. 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! She was born in Beijing. Yujas humilation notwithstanding, it does not seem as though she was treated fairly. On 23 February, Lebrecht published a blog post quoting audience member and conductor Tania Miller, who wrote on her own Facebook page: Your innocent audience, some donning masks to protect themselves from the potential Coronavirus, came to be in your presence for this sold-out concert, and to hear the music and extraordinary talent that you had to share. She typically gives well over one hundred performances per year and I think she is allowed to fuck up one or two. elle avec lagenda charg quelle a .. elle est surtout beaucoup plus demande que Claudio Arrau ne la t de toute a carrire pour moi cest la meilleur pianiste on comprend que a drange un peu les piliers de la musique classique. Cambodia? Do you produce anything of value, other than peckish criticisms? We all have good and bad days and it is a testament to her strength and character that she chose to press on despite the terrible treatment she received. Thank you. Just putting that out there. She caused controversy by wearing what some thought was inappropriate concert dress. You arrogant judgmental arseholes.yes you at Slipped Disc and Tania Miller. If it was simple racial profiling (hard to believe) that she would be right to be upset, of course. Wow, do really in all honesty think that is even worth a mention in review of her concert? Poor little wretched man. Any it was a great performance. Chinese pianist Yuja Wang was subject to 'intense questioning' for over an hour upon arrival in Canada over the weekend,causing her to almost miss her recital that evening at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Yuja Wang - Mozart - Turkish March Watch on This prodigiously talented young musician's life is a whirlwind of appearances at all the major concert halls of the world with the most prestigious orchestras and conductors. Have a nice day. She won the Echo Klassik Award for Young Artist of the Year in 2011. No. Michael Vincent is the Editor-in-chief Ludwig Van and CEO of Museland Media. I am getting VERY tired of people judging pianists because how they look or what they wear. Miss Wang has to bear the consequences of her busy schedule: Claudio Arrau is said to have always arrived in the city where he gave a concert a day or two before the concert. Thus, there can be NO comparison between detaining a famous American artist on Canadian border and detaining any Arab on American border. 3. She had also been worried she would miss her recital. Oops, there I go again, cheap, vulgar opinion about someone I know nothing about just the same as the way she spoke about Yuja. My audiences and fans sustain and nourish me as an artist.. Lang Lang and Yuja Wang are surely our two most popular and trend-setting classical pianists. You, the lady who has awoken Mozart from his slumber and had him dancing to his rather less sedate rondo, just keep breaking down the barriers and opening people's eyes to the joy of Music. Should we consider the smile comment being in the direction of slightly sexist?!? Yes, we ought to allow a certain level of eccentricity from performers but our tolerance of such things is usually proportional to the talents (and charms) of the artist in question. Everything I do on stage is about connecting with people. (The UK is the worst culprit, paying insultingly low fees for the honor of being invited to grace its mostly dilapidated halls. She did play fantastically I was thereand it is abject nonsense to say the audience was furious or disappointed. By the age of 21 she was already an internationally . Tania Miller has since responded with an apology to both Wang and her fans: The Vancouver Recital Society issued this statement: We are so grateful to Yuja Wang for being the consummate professional during her all too brief time in Vancouver on Friday evening. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for how you treated Ms. Yang. (Less so at Montreal Mirabel or Toronto Pearson). Imagine the chanting of Yuja Wang's name and the super natural performance. 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. For pianists, that means dealing with the modern nightmare of travel, jet lag, exhaustion, lugging cases around, But with each subsequent work that she performed, she stood up, bowed quickly without a smile, and when she left the stage she walked with clear body language that shut the audience out. To imply that she snubbed the audience shows how entitled these whiners all are. I made eight trips to see her during the last four months. She is absolutely one of the finest pianists alive on the planet. You and Ms. Miller didnt get the service that you thought you deserved. Before you carelessly dish out commentary about the behavior of a performer (unless he or she actually spat on the audience or threw rotten vegetables to it) ask yourself whether you are able to play a scale on any instrument in front of 2000 people without trembling and whether you actually have the faintest clue of what it is like to be on tour, with people expecting you to be on top form in spite of the indignities of international travel. You went to a concert, YOU DESERVE TO BE ENTERTAINED. I do know, what it feels like to play the piano in front of an audience. What a load of nonsense. 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. You are Amazing and dont stop doing what you are doing! Yuja is a performer who already has a justly deserved reputation for putting herself before the music, and, therefore, the audience. 1. Want more updates on classical music and opera news and reviews? . I was then released, giving me very little time to travel to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. I guess in both those cases they had ran out of sunglasses. It seems inhumane to expect someone to get on the stage and be their best, or even just their norm, in such circumstances. However I noticed there is no mention of her name in this link. But I dont forgive her bending the facts to fit her argument that she felt snubbed because Yuja didnt smile at her. I have no idea who Tania Miller is, sorry, and if she couldnt hear the emotion and rawness that powered this outstanding performance she cant be blamed. 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. Hopefully Ms.Miller has now learnt that next time she should just keep her mouth closed, she has already done herself enough damage. Yuja Wang Illuminates Ravel and Gershwin. GB 638 3492 15, Copyright 2023 Warners Group Publications Plc, Find your favourite scores in our sheet music store, Yuja appears on the cover of Issue 105 of, Yuja Wang Powers Through Traumatic Experience To Give Rousing Recital. By the way, is it a common occurrence that Arabs subjected to intense questioning at the border are scheduled to perform a recital in front of thousands of people a couple of hours later on the same day? No wonder she has never won a Grammy. Find tickets for Yuja Wang in Vancouver on SeatGeek. For sharing you Talent, Passion and Art with the world! Why are we musicians held to a different standard? 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. One persons entirely subjective reaction. My white husband didnt believe it happened . Reputation does not count here. I wonder if they would talk about a non Asian artist of such stature in this manner. What a night!! Musical America's 2016 Musician of the Year is welcomed back to the VRS series after an absence of 10 years. An Arab should be vetted and vetted extremely thoroughly. As far as smiles for the audience goes: neither Mr. Sokolov, nor Mr. Pletnev, nor Mr. Richter, or Mr. Gilels ever smiled on stage for their audiences. She consistently dazzles audiences with her electrifying stage presence, jaw-dropping virtuosity and keen musical insight. . 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. Yuja Wang is a Chinese classical pianist. Only an immigrant knows how stressful and upset it can be when being asked and detained at the border control for over an hour. By all accounts she seemed to have played very well indeed, and all but one member of the audience got their moneys worth and then some. But the attention and $$ are hard to resist, for some. My heart goes out to anyone else who has, and my hope is that by sharing what happened to me, there can be a much needed conversation and change in protocol to ensure this doesnt happen to anyone else. She flew across . 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. She is not a beginner applying for a chance to play in places she has people who deal with this sort of thing. . Composer Magnus Lindberg's new Piano Concerto No. You can't even go to a video of Yuja Wang on youtube without negative comments about what she wears. Now with the covid scare, I dont even want to deal with airports. It would never be my intention to snub or disengage with an audience. The real view is many know and appreciate the performers in our time especially Classical music artists the point had you been the fly on the wall would YOU have looked upon Ms. Wang as an threat ? What silly, immature behavior . She left the stage once for a long time between pieces, and it was odd again. It sounds pretty snowflakish to me to be so traumatized by an hour or two of questioning. You might like to read her statement (below, from Instagram & Facebook) about this rather than leaping to conclusions based on your assumptions about her supposed attention seeking: I bet she had no problem collecting that fat Canadian paycheck despite whatever problems she might have encountered at Customs. I would have done an r e a l s l o w Helen Hunt. Thats right: she gave what she could in spite of difficult circumstances. The primitive may suggest Yuja Wang as being an privileged individual enraged She was treated shabbily. (Credit: Todd Rosenberg photography) Yuja Wang is ever the virtuosic and unpredictable mistress of the keyboard. Her refusal to cancel the show despite what had just happened to her highlights her incredible professionalism. 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. You dont have to play this game. When Beethovens Fifth split down the middle, Music crisis is todays top Scottish headline, https://voiceofoc.org/2020/02/yuja-wang-displays-virtuosity-and-temperament-for-a-puzzled-segerstrom-audience/?fbclid=IwAR3lSQgqK0zae02rcnbu2k2BO_r0UTVaJjOdKfFxMsx1xE8TiUVeqfM1e5o, https://twitter.com/YujaWang/status/1231711581081391108?s=20, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yZPrrboTkY, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/, Two women conductors come out for Cate Blanchetts Tar, 7/11 stores play opera to drive away the homeless. . I know that I am unfortunately not the only person to have had this kind of traumatic experience, which has shaken me to my core. Have you any idea how many borders Yuja Wang crosses in a year? BTW, travelers from East Asia *should* expect extra scrutiny given the spate of zoonotic diseases that tend to originate in that part of the world (Covid-19 being only the most recent). Oh, poor baby had to answer a few questions She had a really bad experience and clearly it affected her deeply. Do you understand the amount of racism Asian people are suffering right now because of Covid-19? Now I understand what Glenn Gould was talking about when he said, I detest audiences, not in their in their individual components. She was paid to play for you, not coddle your fragile ego. If so, I must have missed that. 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