Some of you may be wondering what I think about the flap (largely manufactured by the LA Times) concerning piano virtuoso Yuja Wang and her very short mini dress that she wore at the Hollywood Bowl. I don’t give a shit. The girl plays the crap out of the piano, she can wear whatever she
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Tonight we played the second concert of this series (last night we played in Salem), featuring Brahms’ Tragic Overture, Nielsen’s Sixth Symphony “Simplice”, and Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, with soloist Yuja Wang. Lots of stuff to talk about in this program. First of all, as a performer, it’s a very densely packed bunch of music.
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Oregon Symphony Resident conductor Gregory Vajda conducts a recording of music by his mentor, the composer/conductor Péter Eötvös, entitled As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams. The recording is one of three nominated for the prestigious 2010 MIDEM Classical Award. Conductor Leonard Slatkin has a compelling essay up on his website detailing his experience of
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[click photo to enlarge] After reading this extraordinary review of the new pianist phenom Yuja Wang with the San Francisco Symphony, I now am fairly desperate to see her in performance. I hope that we can get her for an OSO series in an upcoming season. I’d heard rumors that she was like Lang Lang
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