Yuja Wang - Living the Classical Life: Episode 14

Now available at LivingTheClassicalLife.com (http://www.livingtheclassicallife.com/); add your name to our mailing list and be among the first to watch new interviews as they're released. “Life... music and what I do... has to be intermixed, has to be together... or else I feel like I’m not alive.” In an unusually intimate portrait, young piano superstar Yuja Wang speaks of her life and work, demonstrating by musical examples throughout—including a staggering and delightful rendition of an Art Tatum arrangement of “Tea for Two.” She describes her musical aspirations in contrast with audience perceptions, the value of practicing and not practicing, learning and relearning a piece, and the importance of struggle for musical results. She ends the interview with a touching tribute to the late Claudio Abbado.