Yuja Wang takes the knee
mainMy idol!
Captions please.
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Who wouldn’t? But he’d want respect not worship!
True enough. But it you’re going to worship something, Bach seems like one of the better choices.
And the same probably goes for Ms Wang.
Probably he would want a babysitter and a substitute in Thomasschule to take a day off with his wife.
Ich habe genou
Genius!
Are you writing a combined French/German response? You’re demanding that we think. Thank you for that.
I have had enough – not of the music of the great Bach, I have had enough of the adoration of Yuja Wang.
Caption? “This much.”
(Sensible sneakers she’s wearing, btw.)
“Don’t do that!…Worship God!”
(Revelation 19:10 & 22:9)
“Die Leute glauben nicht mehr an Gott. An Bach, jedoch, glauben alle.” (Kurtag)
Wonderful pianist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnOP57wforc
Caption:
“Thanks Yuja but I was expecting Glenn Gould.”
Every performing musician should take a knee before Bach.
Some have nicer knees than others, however.
For Bach, I think all knees would be welcome.
Two roads manifested in your spiritual, corporeal, and intellectual imagination, and we are indebted to you, Johann Sebastian Bach, for leading us onto the well-tempered tuning pathway towards immeasurable musical riches, including the classical composers who followed you, jazz (including the songs that became jazz standards), rock, and myriad continuously evolving forms of pop, too. And the other road continued upon by India (and other great cultures) using forms of Just Intonation is at least equally splendid. And now composers may chose from a wealth of tunings known and unknown with music technology.
http://www.azuremilesrecords.com/hamoa/index.html
Not a caption, but this photo is really delightful.
Bach fathered 20 children over his lifetime. So there never was a truer phrase than Bach’s organ works.
Never!
Oh, mon dieu.
Caption:
“Wie die Nase des Mannes, so sein Johannes”
Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben!
Yuja, recharging her batteries before the gig, she’s wonderful…
I was expecting Handel. Must be a case of Chinese whispers …..
Caption:
“Die Gunst der Fuge”
I would crawl 10 miles over live coals to sniff the tires of the truck that carried Yuja’s skivvies to the laundry.
“Gloria in Excelsis Deo”
Leporella: „O statua gentilissima, il mio padron vorrai con voi censor“
Cenar! (Might have ended better for the Don if predictive text had been available in his day!).
She played the Burleske by R. Strauss in Leipzig on the 24th and her light dress was very, very, very short. – Incidentally, I don’t think she knows enough of JSB’s music.
Scared me for a moment – thought it was for a certain criminal we all know too well…..
When will she record The Goldberg Variations? Or Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations? Hopeful.
Hopefully when she finds access to them, not earlier.
Unlike some other famous Chinese pianist.
“Thanks, Yuja, but I don’t really care for the piano…”
Had I been there, Yuja, I would have gladly and respectfully taken the knee alongside with you.
At last a good reason to kneel!
At last for a good reason!
Mehta! What a great guy! A jewel amongst us!!
We owe a debt of gratitude to Felix Mendelssohn. He put Bach back on the map!
“Inspire me, O God of Music”
I fully understand Ms. Wang’s position and attitude toward Bach and his sublime musical achievement.
As Paul Tortelier said,
“Other composers praised God in their music. But Bach, he was God.”
Any person that has never felt the need to humble themselves before at least one person in their life is probably a person I never want to meet!
It is dangerous to elevate some people above others. We should respect everyone and recognize even the best have foibles and aren’t perfect; and that even the worst have redeeming features.
I am surprised to see Bach represented as a black person in this statue ? Is this cultural appropriation ? Or an early form of blackface ? Why is nobody objecting ?