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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Yes -- art is laughable and absurd posted by rbolaw on July 25, 2014 at 09:53:35:
"So an artist like Yuja Wang has many important choices to make. But if she wants to pack concert halls in her 20s and be hailed as a Young Sensation, some of those choices may be dictated by that. And I might not be quite the typical audience member she is working to reach. That's not her problem, but it's not mine, either."
Yuja makes her choices based on her personal aesthetic values. There is no calculations on her part in regards to packing concert halls or being hailed as a young sensation. That has happened but it is the audience's and critics' reaction to her as an artist. There was no master plan on her part. No calculations as to what would pack houses or wow audiences and critics. What you get with Yuja is who she is as a artist. So she's really not trying to "reach" any particular audience. She puts herself out there as an artist and the audience reacts accordingly. And it has gone pretty well for her.
"I defended Lang Lang here at AA on the grounds that a large part of his audience is Chinese. And the Chinese tend to have a different cultural aesthetic than we do, even when it comes to Western classical music. They aren't inherently wrong. In the US, we tend to forget that there are other countries and cultures, some far older and more populous than ours, and every bit as sophisticated. That doesn't mean I have to be a Lang Lang fan, though."
Yuja has been living in North America since the age of 12 and is very much American on a cultural level. She does not pander to Chinese cultural values. Lang Lang is a very different beast when it comes to connections to his home country.
"All of which means, saying Yuja Wang isn't for me doesn't involve my asserting artistic or knowledge superiority over her. That would be silly. Rather, her approach may not be as universal or profound as some others, even if for understandable reasons."
Yuja does what she does as an honest expression of herself as an individual artist. As for the "universality" of her approach is concerned I would think the sales of her CDs and the sold out concerts worldwide and the high demand for her by audiences and conductors and the high critical acclaim would suggest that she is not really lacking in universal appeal.
That doesn't mean you should like her too. But I don't think she has a problem with mass appeal. I really don't know what to say about the "profundity" of her performances vs. other pianists. Seems pretty subjective no?
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- You make some interesting points that are well worth addressing - Analog Scott 12:50:48 07/25/14 (0)
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