"There was an almost unreal cockiness in all this, as if Wang had to prove that a femme fatale could also be the next Horowitz. Now that she's proved it, what next? Can she really be the next Horowitz?
She is, obviously, a radically different kind of person than Horowitz, who was a neurotic, hothouse flower of a pianist. Fortunately, Wang is a woman of the world and her time. But where she now resembles Horowitz is in her physicality. She no longer looks to be self-consciously proving herself. Like Horowitz, you get the feeling that her body, not her, is the music, that the connection with the keys is a force greater than mere willpower. Also like Horowitz, Wang exhibits a coolness that, through rhythm and attack, is scalding. The showmanship is intense.Horowitz, however, never went beyond that. His later career became an attempt to maintain his youthful dazzle. Wang is the perfect 28-year-old pianist, as Horowitz was at his age. But she also appears to be far more sophisticated than Horowitz ever was. Rather than the next Horowitz, she is coming into her own as the first Wang."
So...better than her idol Horowitz. That ought to ruffle some feathers of the champions of the old guard.
Edits: 07/11/15
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Topic - Yuja wang at the Hollywood Bowl. A review that is sure to stir the pot - Analog Scott 11:16:32 07/11/15 (18)
- RE: Yuja wang at the Hollywood Bowl. A review that is sure to stir the pot - ahendler 16:21:42 07/18/15 (3)
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- RE: Yuja wang at the Hollywood Bowl. A review that is sure to stir the pot - Analog Scott 20:33:49 07/21/15 (0)
- Looks like she's a hit down under too - Analog Scott 08:43:04 07/14/15 (3)
- I obviously didn't hear it, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 18:14:24 07/14/15 (0)
- RE: Looks like she's a hit down under too - merlinus 09:42:51 07/14/15 (1)
- RE: Looks like she's a hit down under too - Analog Scott 09:56:30 07/14/15 (0)
- RE: Yuja wang at the Hollywood Bowl. A review that is sure to stir the pot - Todd Krieger 15:18:59 07/11/15 (0)
- I can say two things definitively - Amphissa 14:28:33 07/11/15 (0)
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- RE: unlike me? - Analog Scott 21:05:55 07/11/15 (0)
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