Yuja Wang responds to harmful criticism for wearing sunglasses on stage after being humiliated at Vancouver airport. After Fridays concert, Wang was shamed by critics for her appearance, with one classical music blogger Norman Lebrecht, who runs Slipped Disc labelling her attention-seeking. My audiences and fans sustain and nourish me as an artist. After all, the 9/11 was perpetrated by Arabs/Muslims on the American soil. Miller has since apologised for her comments. Membership benefits will include a daily digest of stories delivered to your email, and occasional exclusive offers from our partners. 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. 300:51 Strauss/Cziffra - Trisch Tratsch Polka01:20 Prokofiev - Toccata02:12 Pr. Poor N. Lebrecht. Ouch. Yuja Wang was born on the 10th of February, 1987. No point in ranking injustices as the worst and as acceptable. The piano virtuoso has defended herself in an emotional response, explaining that she had been detained and subjected to intense questioning for over an hour at Vancouver International Airport, causing her to almost miss her recital at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.Nowadays, Covid-19 or coronavirus has completely changed air travel. If so, I must have missed that. 3- Canadian border security are known for being intrusive and not particularly amenable. No wonder she has never won a Grammy. everything would contribute to suspicious bits Wake up and smell the covfefe already! By the way, would you expect an Italian citizen to be detained in the same way?
Her being upset is understandable, as she had done nothing wrong, but she needs to cut them some slack, too. Ms. Miller is well aware of this given her conducting history. Speaking as a fellow touring musician, I can absolutely say: if that is Ms. Millers attitude, I guarantee you, she sucks as a conductor. At 30, pianist Yuja Wang has performed at Carnegie Hall 13 times, has played in more than 35 countries, and is Musical America's 2017 Artist of the . Oh, for Petes sake on her FB page, she says she was subjected to intense questioning by the Canadian Customs and her eyes were 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. By the age of 21, she already was an internationally recognized concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. On the contrary, disasters could happen, e.g.
Believe me, getting into Canada is no picnic for anyone, its a miracle anyone goes there on vacation at allthe Voice of Experience. conflict of status ( working on a tourists visa, the Q and A process was not consistence enough . She released a DVD on which she performs Sergei Prokofiev's famous piece "Piano Concerto No. The audience looks at Yujas face when she plays, whereas, all they can see is the back of Ms. Millers head when she conducts. Have either of you seen any of Ms. Wangs youtube videos? Reputation does not count here. Thank you to everyone who has sent or shared words of support during this difficult time. Why was she detained? I was at the concert (seated quite close to the stage) and can attest that no one in my immediate vicinity or with whom I spoke during intermission or afterwards was furious. 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. Its in perspective she was upset, but she played the concert. Yuja Wang is NOT a Chinese citizen, thus detaining an US citizen at Canadian border can and should be looked at as racial profiling, which, I am sure, it was on the part of Canadian Security people. Music degrees are easy to get. Your description of fury seems feeble at best. I realize that artists of Yujas level can, and do cancel, because they have a management team that can easily find another comparable artist to fill in at a moments notice. Give her a break! She explained that the reason for the sunglasses and cold demeanour was because she had experienced a humiliating and deeply upsetting detainment at the Vancouver airport, where she was questioned for over an hour by security and customs officials. Yuja appears on the cover of Issue 105 ofPianist, which you can now download for 2.99 (usually 6.99). It is a shame that you have been subjected to this.
She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
For sharing you Talent, Passion and Art with the world! You can guarantee that something was very wrong for Yuja to behave as she did. This news is as disappointing to us as it is to you.
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. 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. And by many accounts she played fantastically. Ive been quite badly treated by Canadian Immigration a couple of times (UK passport). She is a human being able to feel the humiliation the Canadian authority imposed on her. I suspect that, f she had rinsed her face well a few times with cold water and applied her usual makeup, very few in the audience would have noticed anything. Did the conductor feel the sunglasses meant Yuja didnt hit the right notes? 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. Yuja loves her audiences, and she loves to communicate with them. But Yuja Wang, you must not forget that the music is the most important treasure. Telling people they shouldnt feel the way they feel is performing a humanitarian service. Sexuality: Straight.
I guess some of us were there for the music and not so concerned about how you should behave in a classical music concert setting so you appear proper and classy., What everyone including the pianist fails to grasp is that it is the MUSIC that is the most important aspect of a performance, not what the performer looks like.people listen with their eyes these days and not their earssadly. Yuja is a performer who already has a justly deserved reputation for putting herself before the music, and, therefore, the audience. It would be better to first be informed about the circumstances and then write about it. You implied it was a cheap stunt. You are no better. So typicalpolice a womans choice of dress and then take the word of a spectator over her own. On arrival at Vancouver International Airport on Friday, I was detained for over an hour and subjected to intense questioning which I found humiliating and deeply upsetting. (Less so at Montreal Mirabel or Toronto Pearson). . She couldnt do it, and YOU got upset? The second time, the person I was speaking to was unnecessarily aggressive. Why was she detained? Thats nothing!
Photo: Stefan Cohen Through it all, Wang's extraordinary keyboard technique fluid, masterful, terrifyingly precise served as a reminder of why a concerto can be so much fun, for performers and . Not sure what got up Ms. Millers nose. Wearing sunglasses is SUPER weird. I decided that wearing sunglasses was the only way to prevent my distress from being seen, since I wasnt yet prepared to make a statement about what happened. I had to take a bus and didnt know if Id make the venue in time for the concert. Yuja went above and beyond by following through with her concert. . 16. Interference in Chile in overthrowing a democratically elected leader? 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. Nevertheless, Yuja still gave a stunning recital in Vancouver. Thank you! I cant wait for all the thumbs down for this comment. 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. ), Just a few days ago a case was reported in Vancouver a patient who came from Montreal tested positive. What profession do 90% of music grads do? Youre a pathetic speck of dust! After childhood piano studies in China, she received advanced training in Canada and at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music under Gary . Did you do any of that? Ill venture a guess that you cant play anything other than charades. Instead, fucking Trump lets his people die in the thousands. its totally irrelevant! The victim role doesnt fit. You dont have to play this game. She did not oblige an encore, leaving some in the audience to wonder what had happened to make the pianist uncharacteristically angry. . It would never be my intention to snub or disengage with an audience, she said. At the ball game last night, the great baseball player Mr. 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.
In her post, Wang calls out the media for spreading harmful speculation and criticism. Oh give us a break. traumatic? They still have no idea how it got to Italy. Dont even start me on US border control, and the lines, and the attitude. 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. There are a couple of perspectives here, Max: She made it to the concert hall and didnt wish to disappoint her audience. She lived 2400 miles from me. She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The Norman Lebrechts and Tania Millers of the world are what real musicians refer to as wannabees. 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. Yuja shouldve cancelled. The general public has absolutely no idea what an artist goes through in the hours before a concert. I do know, what it feels like to play the piano in front of an audience. The US-Chinese pianist has offered an explanation on social media for performing in sunglasses on Friday night in Vancouver, an appearance that surprised an disappointed many in her audience. Yuja was born into a musical family in Beijing. I decided that wearing sunglasses was the only way to prevent my distress from being seen, since I wasnt yet prepared to make a statement about what happened. The login page will open in a new tab. She may be tiny in stature and on stage her slinky dresses are clearly meant to thrill. Yuja got her first big break when she was asked, on very short notice, to fill in for another pianist in a piano concerto at the Orange Bowl. .
I mean, really, who gives a rats a** what you think? from Asia). by Stephi Wild - Sep 16, 2022. I denounce it. Yuja Wang got some major emotional distress at customs, it bummed her out, she couldnt do her job. 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. Other artists would have cancelled their performance after such a humilating experience. Lang Lang and Yuja Wang are surely our two most popular and trend-setting classical pianists. You obviously learned nothing about empathy growing up. My audiences and fans sustain and nourish me as an artist. all these gives good or bad impressions to the immigrant officer. Oh, so she was (slightly) delayed at the airport? It wasnt about Ms. Wangs performance, it was about your emotions, wasnt it? Lang Lang and Yuja Wang are surely our two most popular and trend-setting classical pianists. . My audiences and fans sustain and nourish me as an artist.. But Miss Wang is a master of arousal. What is important is she didnt fawn enough over her fans. Shes the best we have. What a night!! I was there, in the fifth row. 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! Kudos to her for going on with her recital after being given a hard time in airport security just a short time before. She didnt want to distract the audience with her red and swollen eyes, so instead wore sunglasses and appeared shaken up, distant and refused an encore? From that perspective, I could easily see how one incident could provoke an existential crisis: A difficult job made more difficult. World-renowned Chinese concert pianist who has performed with groups like Tonhalle Orchestra and New . Oh, poor baby had to answer a few questions War and starvation? She is famous for being a Pianist. 48.
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. Of course, I wasnt at the concert, so I dont know how I would have felt. It seems inhumane to expect someone to get on the stage and be their best, or even just their norm, in such circumstances. 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.". I did not have your name until now. 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. She explained that the reason for the sunglasses and cold demeanour was because she had experienced a "humiliating and deeply upsetting" detainment at the Vancouver airport, where she was questioned for over an hour by security and customs officials. The social media mobbing of Tania Miller? Nobody is begrudging Wang her right to be upset at being inconvenienced, but self-indulgent, annoying behavior on stage is a pattern with her. 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. This would not ordinarily be news, because Yuja Wang is a superstar pianist and therefore plays a lot of concerts. I was then released, giving me very little time to travel to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Yuja Wang! I was then. G. Sokolov, for example, plays longer sonatas in a row without a long pause. 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.
Richter is a genius when he plays in blackened hall. These guys are not welcoming committees though it usually seems so, or used to, as I recall from trips from Vancouver to Seattle and back or into New York State and back from the east. Who are you? THE SCOOP | Pianist Yuja Wang Sets Record Straight Over Bizarre Incident At Vancouver Recital, IN MEMORIAM | St. Lawrence String Quartet Violinist Geoff Nuttall Has Died, PREVIEW | The Elora Singers Open Season With Concert Honouring Matthew Shepard, PREVIEW | The Womens Musical Club Of Toronto Outlasts Them All, Canadian Chinese Society for the Arts (CCSA).
Yuja is human too. Thus, the fear and the vetting is 100% justified, while detaining Ms. Wang is NOT! Photo: Julia Wesely, A post shared by Yuja Wang (@yujawang.official) on Feb 23, 2020 at 2:10pm PST. I was going to have a delightful after dinner aperitif, but your shallow cheapness has put me right off. But I dont forgive her bending the facts to fit her argument that she felt snubbed because Yuja didnt smile at her. (The UK is the worst culprit, paying insultingly low fees for the honor of being invited to grace its mostly dilapidated halls. Just putting that out there. If she was sad, it was because she had gotten traumatized and was unable to give the love to the audience the way she usually does. Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. We have received so many comments from patrons who attended the recital, glowing about how wonderfully she performed and asking for her return.
As a pianist who has performed hundreds of concerts, sometimes in dire situations (I performed an all Beethoven recital the day my mother died), I have always resented the show must go on mentality. Some of the above comments from Tania Miller are simply untrue. Have a nice day. The Washington Post calls her "arguably" the hottest pianist in the . By the age of 21 she was already an internationally . The power of her interpretations emerges from a distinct combination of her exceptional presence on stage and a natural affinity and inquisitive approach to the repertoire, which ranges from Mozart to Gershwin and beyond. 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. Indeed they do as seen in the hundreds of messages of support she has since received on Twitter and Instagram, including the below image of Wang smiling with hand on heart, smiling at the audience (I believe this image should call into doubt the veracity of the claim that she did not appreciate her audience, Mark Ainley writes). 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. One must admire her for not cancelling. When will people begin to understand that sometimes its difficult enough getting yourself out of the door, on a plane,negociating everything that involves, showing up at an international venue and playing like a dream without all of the restrictions that Covid has placed on artists. Thank you to everyone who has sent or shared words of support during this difficult time. Sunglasses? World-renowned Chinese concert pianist who has performed with groups like Tonhalle Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. They gave almost back-to-back recitals at . When she walked out on stage with sunglasses and a direct approach to the piano, quick bow and immediate performance with no acknowledgement of the audience, I thought it was quirky. With crap empathy for your talent, you cant possibly do good work. She wanted to be a concert pianist, but she wasnt good enough, ended up being a conductor, but always, lingering in her heart, was disdain for those who had musically bettered her. are cold and without any reason at all are prepared to attack .. anyone. Yuja Wang has an estimated net worth of $20 million, as per celebritynetworth. Davidat this moment there are tens of thousands dead of Covid-19 across the globe (perhaps hundreds of thousands, since we cannot trust the numbers coming from China). If she hedged, to try to speed the process along, they might well have become quite nasty.
Ah, Montral Mirabel.
She's a complete virtuoso, with physical capabilities that are astonishing, given her slender frame. Really, who is the one who should put things into perspective here? The young Pierre Boulez wore sunglasses during a conduction because of an eye infection. And when one Has To, money (another favorite argument for the cynics) is not the motivation. perhaps they she thought she is contagious?
Many thanks for the quick add. As another commenter sagely points out, perhaps Yuja Wang, Inc. should consider a less busy concert schedule.
Certainly will no longer watch your pod cast. If you want things perfect- buy the CD. THE AMERICAN PROJECT Yuja Wang. We welcome Musical America's 2016 Musician of the Year back to the VRS after an absence of 10 years. Poor little wretched man. The experience left her 'extremely shaken', she explained in a Facebook post after her performance. Perhaps a vigilant manager removed it. In most peoples professions it is understood that they may miss work due to likeness or other personal reasons. Everything I do on stage is about connecting with people. We all know of many artists, both of the past and modern, who were in the habit of cancelling at the slightest excuse. You and Ms. Miller didnt get the service that you thought you deserved. Then you have the respected conductor condescendingly giving advice to a major artist what she must not forget about music. ! i played along from my seat! How many recitals and concerts have you attended? 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! 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 ? . Technically everything was dazzling, every detail crisp and perfectly articulated, with chords exactly weighted and precisely placed. But never, not for one second, did she hold back in her performances, and I felt very lucky to be there for such an intimate and courageous sharing of music. Why dont you both grow up and put your big-people shoes on and realize that most artists go above and beyond, and try to transcend, when they communicate with their listeners. Chinese pianist Yuja Wang has issued an emotional response, after being criticised for wearing sunglasses during a recital in Canada. Heifetz was attacked with an iron rod by an audience member who managed to reach him and hit his hand (which he used to protect his violin). Get Yuja Wang Tickets for all Vancouver concerts at the most affordable prices and with minimum fees. I certainly would have canceled if it had happened prior to the concert. A few things: My comment at the time was that she allowed herself to become so vulnerable and exposed through her playing, with all defences lowered, and I felt she was courageous to give everything away as she did. Sunglasses, though yeah, thats going to attract attention, especially without further explanation from the performer. Yeah, that is actually the point of this entire discussion thread. You obviously never went to an Elton John concert or a Roy Orbison concert. Expand. Yuja @YujaWang . Yuja Wang performs a program with works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schoenberg, April 10, 2022. As an infant, she watched her mother, a dancer, rehearse Swan Lake. If youve been in Japan or China you would be used to the sight and not make anything of it. She had also been worried she would miss her recital. I felt humiliated and enraged with the manner in which this was handled by personnel. It is all too easy for some people to be cynical about performers. Well, personal attitude, being cooperative or not cooperative, being humble or arrogant. Someone even disliked my comment we perceive our perceptions the orher day. To begin with, Wang's program was . I was left extremely shaken by this experience. 3 in C Major." By age 21, Wang was already an internationally acknowledged concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. Your email, and she loves to communicate with them Wangs performance, it about. From that perspective, I could easily see how one incident could provoke an crisis! As an artist goes through in the thousands there are a couple of perspectives here,:. 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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. I saw two people, both Asian, wearing face masks. . Who said what to whom in that room will never be known, but someone who has been an international artist for so long, with her papers in order, would likely have been shaken to be subject to interrogation. The touring life for top soloists is hideous these days, mainly because service has gone to hell across almost all sectors associated with travel.
Care to elaborate on these hundreds of thousands of civilians with unbiased evidence based on empirical researchor is this your usual weekly anti American rant. Find out the facts before you make a jerk out of yourself. . Select your subscription length below and head to the checkout: Please log in again. So was Tania Millers. (Credit: Todd Rosenberg photography) Yuja Wang is ever the virtuosic and unpredictable mistress of the keyboard. 3. Clearly this reveals how crude people can become when they have an delusion of being empowered.
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