{"id":6770,"date":"2011-08-20T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T02:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:53:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:53:25","slug":"yuja-wangs-little-orange-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/20\/yuja-wangs-little-orange-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"yuja wang&#8217;s little orange dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yuja-wang-by-felix-broede-for-dg-43.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3954 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"yuja-wang-by-felix-broede-for-dg-43\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yuja-wang-by-felix-broede-for-dg-43-250x303.jpg?resize=250%2C303\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/la-et-concert-dress-20110820,0,4569255.story\" target=\"_blank\">very short mini dress<\/a> that she wore at the Hollywood Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t give a shit. The girl plays the crap out of the piano, she can wear whatever she likes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t give a shit. The girl plays the crap out of the piano, she can wear whatever she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148,115,1027,135,138],"tags":[2764,2680,2765,2766,2770,2769,1624],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-music","category-piano-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-summer-festivals","tag-dress","tag-hollywood-bowl","tag-la-times","tag-mini-dress","tag-orange","tag-red","tag-yuja-wang"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1Lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2568,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/22\/adding-yuja-to-the-wish-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":6770,"position":0},"title":"adding yuja to the wish list","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"[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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chamber music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"yuja-wang-by-felix-broede-for-dg-63","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yuja-wang-by-felix-broede-for-dg-63-200x269.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3555,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/05\/odds-and-ends-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":6770,"position":1},"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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