Re: WAYLTL 2025!

On 2025-05-24 10:10 p.m., DeepBlue wrote:

On Sat, 24 May 2025 20:53:14 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:
 

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.

 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.
 

In his case the jury chairman wanted to award the prize to
a local. However, the 2 European judges threatened to resign
and more or less forced the jury to award it to Lupu.