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Subject: Re: WAYLTL 2025!
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 20:33:07 +0000
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On Sun, 25 May 2025 15:13:44 +0000, Graham wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 24 May 2025 0:18:46 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Magdalene Ho (of Malaysia)
>>>>
>>>> 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. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>>
>>> 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.

There you go!

Cheers!