Long-Thibaud jury splits over a Korean and a Japanese
NewsHyuk Lee, 22, from South Korea and Masaya Kamei, 20, from Japan, have been named joint winners of the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris.
It’s yet another instance of a high-profile jury (listed below) proving unable to make up its collective mind.
Offered coffee or tea, they would order half and half.
The jury consisted of Philippe Entremont, Marc Laforêt, Rena Shereshevskaya, Éric Heidsieck, François-René Duchâble, Momo Kodama, János Balász and Jorge Luís Prats, with Plamena Mangova et Bruno Leonardo Gelber judging online.
photo: © Corentin Schimel/Long-Tibaud press office
Can you please stop complaining about juries and competitions. It has become an absolute joke at this stage. They picked two winners. Big deal. Where is it written two people cannot be judged equally?
Ughh…yet more competitions churning more run of the mill winners.
Please give us a break!
Having sat on juries, i can confirm that ties can happen – They are not at all an indication of a bumbling, indecisive jury.
Maybe, it’s time to let go of designating people by their ethnicity, and focus on the relative talents of each contender. Even when a person of a certain national origin competes from a country he has immigrated to, the press continues to identify him according to ethnicity. Maybe, a better way to make a headline is to add just one or two words, such as, “A violinist from Japan shares First Prize with a violinist from South Korea for First Prize……” Or, even, just leave the designators out of the headline, with “Two violinists are awarded First Prize…”???
My pet peeve, that we stop reinforcing racism with headlines triggering subconscious racist reactions.
I can’t agree more…especially on slipped disc, it’s always about their nationality…I find it demeaning to be labeled and identified that way, especially when it’s framed as “another win by a Korean”, which often is how things are put here on slippeddisc
They’re not ‘subconscious’!! These tags are deliberate. It’s the new face of racism. Who in the world would have thought we’d be going down these rabbit holes and what in the world could possibly go wrong?!
Maybe, it’s time to let go of designating people by their ethnicity, and focus on the relative talents of each contender. Even when a person of a certain national origin competes from a country he has immigrated to, the press continues to identify him according to ethnicity. Maybe, a better way to make a headline is to add just one or two words, such as, “A violinist from Japan shares First Prize with a violinist from South Korea for First Prize……” Or, even, just leave the designators out of the headline, with “Two violinists are awarded First Prize…”???
My pet peeve, that we stop reinforcing racism with headlines triggering subconscious racist reactions.
In 1989, I shared Premier Grand Prix Long-Thibaud with a wonderful pianist, Brian Ganz. Leon Fleisher was jury chair. I remember the first round, everyone had to play just one work, the complete Sonata no. 2 by Chopin. Glad to see this competition – perhaps the oldest one? – still in existence.
Dude, you can’t stop talking about yourself. Get over yourself.
The South Koreans are really punching above their weight in just about every field these days!
Uh, “Japanese” refers to a person native to Japan and “Korean” refers to, in this case, a person native to South (as opposed to South) Korea.
I guess SD could identify people based on which city they live in. But I’m not sure if “Tokyoite,” “Londoner,” “Seoulite,” “New Yorker,” “Parisian,” “Los Angeleno,” “Chicagoan,” “Mexico Cityite,” etc, might be deemed as too provincial, too bigoted too.