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In Reply to: RE: Relax, it's all good posted by jazz1 on July 24, 2014 at 23:15:57
Well let's put it this way. About 5 years ago or so when I discovered Yuja Wang I started a thread on the Hoffman forums titled "The next superstar in classical music Yuja Wang." Or something to that effect. A few forum members wrote her off as a flash in the pan and predicted that she would be forgotten in 4 or 5 years.
weeeeeeeell it's been 4 or 5 years. I'm thinking I was pretty much on the money with my prediction back when she was brand new and hardly known at all.
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Actually, my sense is that Yuja is more in demand these days than ever. I believe she appeared with the SF Symphony no less than four separate times last year - I can't ever recall that happening with any other artist. I think she appeared multiple separate times in LA (within the same year) too. Maybe she just likes the West Coast! ;-)
Anyway, you have to ask why symphony managements in both locations keep re-engaging her so often. I think one factor is that they know she's a lock to fill all the seats in the hall every time she appears. Of course, if one still doesn't like her playing, one can always retreat to the quote from Beethoven: "They say, vox populi, vox dei - I have never believed in this" [from Ferdinand Hiller's Reminiscences]. But in that case, there could also be some underlying self-flattery at work, viz, "I can discern beyond what the common crowd does"!
Just sayin'. ;-)
She is in more demand than ever before. her management is now in the business of picking between all the offers she has. This is world wide phenomenon not just a west coast one. It doesn't hurt that MTT and Dudamel think she's the best pianist in the world but there are a lot of other music directors around the world who share that opinion so they all want to play concertos with her.
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