{"id":15480,"date":"2018-01-05T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2018-01-05T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:49:52","slug":"yuja-wang-rock-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2018\/01\/05\/yuja-wang-rock-star.html","title":{"rendered":"Yuja Wang: Rock Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tShe’s not new to me but watching this performance tonight confirms what the critics and even the skeptics say: She’s all that. It’s like she’s dancing up there, dancing like The Wild Thing but not that<\/em> wild that she becomes annoying. <\/p>\n

Here she is looking for a cue from the conductor, Temerkinov, who has barely cast her a glance this whole first movement of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Concerto, said to be a gift from Freud.<\/p>\n

\"Yuja

Yuja Wang: Rock Star<\/p><\/div>\n

Everybody looks like everybody. Watching this video I think the conductor looks like Chuck Schumer, one of the violinists looks like Henry Blodgett, the cembalo player looks like a woman I knew named Emily, the oboist looks like a 12-year old version of a voiceover artist I used to know\u2026 <\/p>\n

Oh, and one of the violists, who has a huge zit on her torso and looks like Jennifer Connelly, looks in her strapless top like she is naked when she holds her instrument a certain way.<\/p>\n

Everybody looks like Dick Clark eventually.<\/p>\n

Yuja Wang is UNSPEAKABLY HOT but I don\u2019t like how the camera crew tries to milk her body the way they do. Cute age spot or birthmark or whatever it is called on her back, so I gained that edification in addition to revisiting this concerto I used to sorta-kinda be able to play.<\/p>\n

What is the meaning of the bracelet she is wearing? In high school I was scolded for wearing such a thing, though I admit that it was even more flamboyant.<\/p>\n

I know, I know. It is IMPROPER to have carnal thoughts. I’ll get over it. When I die. Which could have been today. Seriously. I am still waking up at 9:49pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She’s not new to me but watching this performance tonight confirms what the critics and even the skeptics say: She’s all that. It’s like she’s dancing up there, dancing like The Wild Thing but not that wild that she becomes annoying. Here she is looking for a cue from the conductor, Temerkinov, who has barely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listening-watching","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yuja-wang-rock-star-1024x730-4.jpg?fit=1024%2C730&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-41G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}