Re: WAYLTL 2025!

On Sun, 25 May 2025 5:48:57 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:

On Sun, 25 May 2025, DeepBlue wrote:
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On Sat, 24 May 2025 20:53:14 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:
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 On Sat, 24 May 2025, DeepBlue wrote:
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 On Sat, 24 May 2025 0:18:46 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:
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  Magdalene Ho (of Malaysia)

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 Note however that she was born in the US,
 is (at least half) Chinese, and studied
 mainly in the UK with Patsy Fou. I guess
 the only thing Malay about her is one of
 her passports. ;-)
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 Cheers!
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 Looks like she did not make it through to
 the round of 18.  Of the few I watched,
 one I thought quite poor did make it.

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I am not entirely surprised. The Clickburn
is an unfriendly environment and ecosystem
to pianists who display too much nuance or
subtlety. It has been going downhill since
Radu Lupu won in 1966.
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To make matters worse, the Clickburn does
not even provide decent instruments. The
Stoneway they use has a shallow hollow
tinny metallic tone.
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I am very disappointed.
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Cheers!
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From Ben Laude, whom I've found to be an
astute listener:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRQU--cC_vQ

Yes, indeed. Ben has good ears. He is also
rather naive about how competitions really
work. The main reason Magdalene Ho was not
promoted to the next stage is that she does
not study (or appears to have studied) in
any of the "top" US conservatories, or with
anyone who is in the jury or even taken a
master class with any of them. Color me
cynical, I don't care.
Who are your favorites so far?
Cheers!