Despite this awful treatment at the hands of Canadian customs authorities Yuja still did a wonderful concert., and the audience was enthusisatic and overwhelming in their applause and praise.I applaud Yuja for her professionalism, and her determination to still play. There are a couple of perspectives here, Max: Yuja did indeed perform. And again we felt she must not be well. Its in perspective she was upset, but she played the concert. A few actually go on the road and be the real thing, traveling, professional, performance musicians, and this, friends, is in the grand tradition of 14th century lute players traveling from town to town, proffering their audio wares, rubber meets road the real thing. This is a picture of her, taken on stage at the end of the Vancouver recital. It would never be my intention to snub or disengage with an audience, she said. How about this: Artist so-and-so gave a lously performance last night. Since she was 19 years old, she has been a sensation in the world of piano. As it turned out, her behavior was explained by the execrable treatment shed sustained at the hands of the border police that afternoon. Select your subscription length below and head to the checkout: Please log in again. Very disrespectful of her to wear the glasses. I made eight trips to see her during the last four months. Probably wouldve been best if shed briefly addressed the audience and explained she was rattled from just going through airport security heck, And why dont I start with a piece not on the printed program to get my head back into the music, before launching into what sounds like a perfectly well-rendered recital? ), Just a few days ago a case was reported in Vancouver a patient who came from Montreal tested positive. You can't even go to a video of Yuja Wang on youtube without negative comments about what she wears. Yuja Wang is first and foremost a human being! She had also been worried she would miss her recital. What silly, immature behavior . 2. V. Lind, Montral Mirabel? 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. !tu ne laime pas ok !! If youve been in Japan or China you would be used to the sight and not make anything of it. 3 in C Major.". That war alone has cost roughly a hundred thousand peoples lives. She perfectly well knows that it is tough being an artist, and even tougher being a traveling artist, and considerably tougher being an international touring artist. So stop acting like petulent children. Yujas humilation notwithstanding, it does not seem as though she was treated fairly. He kept on playing. With crap empathy for your talent, you cant possibly do good work. 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. 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. , Concerto Grosso No.8 in G minor Opus 6 (4), We can rebuild pianos, but we cant rebuild lives Yuja Wang on Philadelphia piano, Classical music festival Riga Jurmala launches this summer with Yuja Wang and Milo on, English National Opera to receive 91 percent of original Arts Council funding but for, When late rock legend Jeff Beck turned Puccinis Nessun dorma into a roaring electric, Cate Blanchett wins Best Actress Golden Globe for her lead role in Tr as fictional, Classic FM's More Music Breakfast with Tim Lihoreau, Download 'Concerto Grosso No.8 in G minor Opus 6 (4)' on iTunes, A post shared by Hope (@pianowithhope). 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. What do you love, dear Norman? Based on your logic, US citizens should be detained anywhere first of all. This lady was damned if she did and damned if she didnt. As an infant, she watched her mother, a dancer, rehearse Swan Lake. She lived 2400 miles from me. You didnt get your ya-yas, didnt get your stroke, and know you are fussy and peeved. Given her status she could also call the press, which she did not do. Yuja Wang was born into a musical family in Beijing on 10 February 1987. 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. By the age of 21, she already was an internationally recognized concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. By Mark Swed Classical Music Critic. 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. To imply that she snubbed the audience shows how entitled these whiners all are. its totally irrelevant! I was then. This shows me how a narrowminded personality you must be.. As a concert presenter/promotor, I would be curious to know 1) Did the presenter apply for a proper working visa for the artist to work legitimately and 2) if the artist has hold on any kind of invitation letter to perform proving that she is coming to the city to perform and be able to present such letter to the immigration on request? Nobody is begrudging Wang her right to be upset at being inconvenienced, but self-indulgent, annoying behavior on stage is a pattern with her. It still shows how much dedication she has to her audience and fans. Want more updates on classical music and opera news and reviews? Her having been harassed to the point of tears matters not. This will be because of her being visibly Chinese, and perhaps because she was so well-travelled, as someone has suggested. It would never be my intention to snub or disengage with an audience. (Credit: Todd Rosenberg photography) Yuja Wang is ever the virtuosic and unpredictable mistress of the keyboard. A post shared by Hope (@pianowithhope) on Feb 22, 2020 at 9:07am PST. The general public has absolutely no idea what an artist goes through in the hours before a concert. 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. All I can say is, it was really a drag to see that gross tape wrapped on the wrist, and the playing was totally subpar, almost like the artist just really didnt give a darn about the audience, maybe wanted to deliberatly irritate them. 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. 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. As each subsequent work was performed and this pattern continued, it became clear that she was shutting the door on her audience. 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. I was in shock. Very distasteful, and polarizing. She is a human being able to feel the humiliation the Canadian authority imposed on her. Oh and I should tell you that I have faced discrimination myself on several occasions. Find tickets for Yuja Wang in Vancouver on SeatGeek. ! i played along from my seat! Right? But Yuja Wang, you must not forget that the music is the most important treasure. Yuja Wang got some major emotional distress at customs, it bummed her out, she couldnt do her job. 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). Should be interesting. 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. We guarantee all our Yuja Wang tickets are 100% authentic and your seats will be together. Like the usual Carnegie Hall cognoscenti I heard Horowitz last year, he was SO MUCH BETTER then (an actual quotation). During the sold-out show, Wang wore sunglasses and appeared visibly upset. Chapeau to Yuja for playing (with sunglasses to hide her swollen eyes from the audience!) So typicalpolice a womans choice of dress and then take the word of a spectator over her own. Here, playing with guarded poise, Ms. Wang seemed to inhabit a kind of aftermath of the dazed chaos she had depicted in the early-20th-century works on the first half. 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. Exactly! Michael holds a Doctorate in Music from the University of Toronto. She released a DVD on which she performs Sergei Prokofiev's famous piece "Piano Concerto No. 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 . Yuja Wang is a spectacular technician but she could do with some masterclasses IMO in order to understand that virtuosity isnt an end in itself. If it was simple racial profiling (hard to believe) that she would be right to be upset, of course. Should we consider the smile comment being in the direction of slightly sexist?!? Yuja Wang Illuminates Ravel and Gershwin. 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. This is the dumbest thing Ive read in months. There you can experience intense questioning. Isaac Stern is said to have played while there were bomb raids in Tel Aviv. ! i played along from my seat! The sunglasses still seem like an overreaction and a mistake. (The UK is the worst culprit, paying insultingly low fees for the honor of being invited to grace its mostly dilapidated halls. But it happened, unexpectedly, hours before a performance and placed in doubt whether she could make her commitment. Such characters generally have no clue about what it takes to be a performer, let alone one of international caliber. Puzzled and perhaps intrigued by the sunglasses, to be sure, but angry?? The experience resonated long after her first encounter with Tchaikovsky. I am deeply grateful to Leila Getz and her team in Vancouver, and to the audience there with me in the hall for their support throughout the day and evening. until we had travelled several times together and I was pulled aside every single time, while he sailed through security like it wasnt there. The touring life for top soloists is hideous these days, mainly because service has gone to hell across almost all sectors associated with travel. She suffered a traumatic, humiliating attack, and should be commended for not cancelling her concert! Her being upset is understandable, as she had done nothing wrong, but she needs to cut them some slack, too. THE AMERICAN PROJECT Yuja Wang. (a trap set up to give the Soviets their Vietnam), Iraq? Of course, I wasnt at the concert, so I dont know how I would have felt. Players who operate at that level do so Because They Have To (I write this well mindful that it will be misunderstood). 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. All tickets are 100% guaranteed. Pity. It is Beautiful! She couldnt do it, and YOU got upset? Yuja loves her audiences, and she loves to communicate with them. Ah, Montral Mirabel. She did play fantastically I was thereand it is abject nonsense to say the audience was furious or disappointed. . Youre getting all bothered because someone decided to wear sunglass to play a recital? 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. She needs to go away, period. I am getting VERY tired of people judging pianists because how they look or what they wear. You, good sir, are not one of them. Having made her debut with that orchestra in 2006 and becoming a Shenson Young Artist later that year the pianist has since been celebrated for her charismatic artistry, emotional honesty, and captivating stage presence. However, like every other news site, we have costs to bear and are urging readers to help share them. Everything I do on stage is about connecting with people. My white husband didnt believe it happened . pleazzz.traumatic is whats happening to that Chinese tennis player right now.cant believe someone at her level would be that delicate, surely she had music teachers that were far worse? Photo: Julia Wesely, A post shared by Yuja Wang (@yujawang.official) on Feb 23, 2020 at 2:10pm PST. Shes the best we have. Yuja Wang has an estimated net worth of $20 million, as per celebritynetworth. So, Ms. Wang had the right to be at least upset if not more. I agree with V. Lind well done indeed, Mr. Wells. My audiences and fans sustain and nourish me as an artist. [3] Yuja isnt a robot! It sounds pretty snowflakish to me to be so traumatized by an hour or two of questioning. Yuja Wang, the young pianist who marked the Vancouver Recital Society's 30th anniversary with a recent downtown performance, is beginning to be described as "the new Lang Lang" . After all, she is only a human being who went through something that affected her in a horrific way. Her repertoire for the night included Bach's Toccata in C minor BWV 911, Brahms's Intermezzo in A minor Op 116 No 2, Galuppi's Andante from Sonata in C major, and a number . If Miss Wangs plans were similar, she could recover from real and supposed humiliations. Telling people they shouldnt feel the way they feel is performing a humanitarian service. Yuja Wang is simply amazing from a technical perspective, but her playing is very self-regarding, at times even un-musical. 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. I have no sympathy for her. So I guess it would be OK for you to stop and frisk every white red-neck looking person trying to enter a high school in america since ALL (100%) of the school shootings have been done by white supremacists or nutjobs who happen to favor racial profiling and are perennially afraid of arabs, as YOU may understand. The Canadians were indeed usually very welcoming. Only an immigrant knows how stressful and upset it can be when being asked and detained at the border control for over an hour. I would have done an r e a l s l o w Helen Hunt. She adds, in an Instagram post, that although she found the experience humiliating and deeply upsetting, she was determined not to let her audience down so decided to wear sunglasses to cover her visibly red and swollen eyes. I saw two people, both Asian, wearing face masks. 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. In the English version of his autobiography Jackie Chan, the action movie star, spent two chapters mainly describing the prejudice, racial profiling, and typecasting he experienced when he was in the US. It would be better to first be informed about the circumstances and then write about it. 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. For pianists, that means dealing with the modern nightmare of travel, jet lag, exhaustion, lugging cases around, Hi Saxon, You bring joy to so many, Yuja. Get Yuja Wang Tickets for all Vancouver concerts at the most affordable prices and with minimum fees. The ones who place sword in hand and venture forth into the middle world, they are the heroes/heroines of the world. 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. War and starvation? Yeah, that is actually the point of this entire discussion thread. She is famous for being a Pianist. Fact is, almost anybody can write a little article about something. The music was wonderful. I was then released, giving me very little time to travel to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. perhaps they she thought she is contagious? I was there, in the fifth row. Regarding your comment, I have no idea who Tania Miller is There is a reason. Susan, thank you for your beautiful and empathetic and supportive post!!! They teach. Her international breakthrough came in 2007, when she replaced Martha Argerich as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Yuja Wang was born in Beijing, China on February 10, 1987. Im sure everyone did their best, including border service agents, who are instructed to screen travellers who have visited Wuhan, as this one did in October, two months before the outbreak became a serious public-health challenge. After Friday's concert, Wang was shamed by critics for her appearance, with one classical music blogger - Norman Lebrecht, who runs Slipped Disc - labelling her "attention-seeking". 2- The fact that Arabs have it bad doesnt mean that everyone else is perfectly fine and unjustified in denouncing unfair treatment. 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. . You are behaving like hack cynics: A person who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Yuja Wang's Net Worth In 2022. Some of the audience tittered at the thought that this was some sort of cool new dress code. All safety measures are taken by airlines and airport authorities to keep safe travelers and themselves from this deadly virus. We were rewarded with two encores. 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. Some of the above comments from Tania Miller are simply untrue. I admit I do not know just how upset she was. Anyone who has been to Wuhan and other areas where the virus is known to exist should have lab tests, especially if they will travel internationally. . Ms. Miller is well aware of this given her conducting history. She is absolutely one of the finest pianists alive on the planet. Such is not the case with those of us who regularly perform with local orchestras or in recital. I was left extremely shaken by this experience. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Thank you to everyone who has sent or shared words of support during this difficult time. I wasnt there, I didnt see the concert. The soloist splashes through explosive passagework, with rapid-fire. The wrist was taped, and the artist was whacked out on oxycontin, but managed to play the gig. Miller has since apologised for her comments. She could have done a Van Halen (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/) but instead she honored The Show Must Go On. a great recital! Everything I do on stage is about connecting with people. She had also been worried she would miss her recital. Ive performed 66 different works with various orchestras and have never once canceled. Or just got offended because someone decided to wear sunglasses, frankly, Im completely baffled by your attitude here. I mean, who would wear sunglasses at a concert unless their eyes were puffy and red and embarrassing. Works every time. It is a shame that you have been subjected to this. I was left extremely shaken by this experience. There are plenty of other scenarios in which she might need to quickly exit the stage between pieces. Not sure what got up Ms. Millers nose. You might apologize for your quick print. 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. Shows how much dedication she has to her audience Vancouver on SeatGeek logging. 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