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After reading this extraordinary review<\/a> of the new pianist phenom Yuja Wang<\/a> with the San Francisco Symphony, I now am fairly desperate to see her in performance.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope that we can get her for an OSO series in an upcoming season.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d heard rumors that she was like Lang Lang but with discipline and no theatrics, and it sounds like she’s delivering, and how!<\/p>\n

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\nYuja Wang’s debut album<\/a>\"\" on Deutsche Grammophone – if you buy from this link by clicking on the photo, it helps pay for hosting costs for this blog!<\/p>\n

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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.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope that we can get her for an OSO series in an upcoming season.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d heard rumors that she was like Lang Lang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[136,186,115,1027,168,135,2],"tags":[160,1625,1624],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-labor-issues","category-music","category-piano-music","category-recordings-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-review","tag-san-francisco-symphony","tag-yuja-wang"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Fq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3555,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/05\/odds-and-ends-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":2568,"position":0},"title":"odds and ends","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Oregon Symphony Resident conductor Gregory Vajda conducts a recording of music by his mentor, the composer\/conductor P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, entitled As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams.\u00a0 The recording is one of three nominated for the prestigious 2010 MIDEM Classical Award. 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