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    All comments by Maria Reine

    People are Talking: UMS Presents Yuja Wang at Hill Auditorium [plus AUDIO]:

  • Ms. Wang was sublime, though I’d have paid five times more to sit in a more intimate setting. Hill Auditorium seems just too huge for a solo piano recital. I sat on the main floor, and I wondered how the folks in the balcony were doing. I thought the two inane incidents of the cell phones ringing and the constant tubercular hacking were embarrassing though. If Ms. Wang had sat there silently until the cellular offenders were evicted from the auditorium, I would have been thrilled and I would have cheered her (and jeered them). I don’t know what to say about audience members who openly cough without any attempts to muffle the noise. I think there will always be people who are indifferent to the disturbance they make, and will act surprised and shocked when called on it. Like the woman sitting near us who drank from a plastic water bottle, which she insisted on noisily crinkling.

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