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Yuja Wang is extremely gifted, but she’s not so far beyond any mortal who has ever played that she is beyond criticism. She’s also a very beautiful woman, but not so much more beautiful than any woman who has ever appeared in the public eye that she should therefore be entirely beyond judgment. It seems perfectly reasonable to comment on her stage image. Weirdly one is expected not to notice how a performer performs. If Joshua Bell, say, decided that playing in only a thong made him feel freer as a musician I don’t think it would be out of bounds to suggest that maybe he’d serve the music a little better if he showed a little less Bell. If Yuja Wang appeared nude on stage I suppose we’d be scolded for noticing and shamed for suggesting that the movement of her naked body distracted from her playing.
I don’t care if she appears completely nude on stage. It is possible to be of two minds. Yuja Wang is both an artist and a desirable woman. Why pretend?! And quite frankly, the classical music world could use a bit of erotica. Yuja, I adore you.


















