YUJA WANG SAID “CONDUCTING FROM THE PIANO IS LIKE DOING IT WITH THE CONDOM OFF.” IS IT? WHO IS THE BEST CONDUCTOR/SOLOIST TODAY AND WHAT WOULD SHE SAY?

In an interview in The Telegraph, the star pianist gave a humdinger of a headline about conducting while at the piano saying it was “like doing it with the condom off.” Is it? Hardly. Read on.

Ah, Yuja Wang.   What makes her fascinating is not just her playing, astoundingly virtuosic it is.  Yet, there are other pianists of similar technical ability and greater depth.  But, as with a few other eye catching soloists, if that should actually matter, she brings great fascination to her dress, or lack thereof, her heels on the pedals, and her fle…