{"id":33829,"date":"2016-02-02T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=33829"},"modified":"2017-09-22T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:05:07","slug":"coffee-break-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2016\/02\/02\/coffee-break-6\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK | The Page Turner Death Stare"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33836\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/page_turner_death_stare.jpg\" alt=\"Yuja Wang\" width=\"770\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/page_turner_death_stare.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/page_turner_death_stare-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pianist Yuja Wang stares down her page turner during a performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicfm.com\/artists\/yuja-wang\/news\/page-turner\/#v4gsydsIuKVUK3gJ.97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via<\/a>) We&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/09\/25\/feature-plight-of-the-page-turner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said it before<\/a>; there is no\u00a0worse job than being a page turner. After watching this video of pianist Yuja Wang giving her page turner a hilarious death stare waiting for her to turn the page, you&#8217;ll see\u00a0why.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; -webkit-transform: scale(1);\" src=\"\/\/gifs.com\/embed\/mZYJW9\" width=\"480px\" height=\"270px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You may be thinking, why bother with a page turner at all? The business of performing music from the page means it&#8217;s not always possible to turn the pages while playing. Musicians have been turning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/03\/20\/cool-stuff-5-airturn-bluetooth-page-turner\/\">technology<\/a> to solve this problem. The alternative is to use the method of taping the pages together to create a scroll that can more easily be handled while playing.<\/p>\n<p>To see a longer clip of Yuja Wang comradery\u00a0between her page turner see here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJGMRExUCFM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and review\u00a0before anyone else finds out? 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After watching this video of pianist Yuja Wang giving her page turner a hilarious death stare waiting for her to turn the page, you&#8217;ll see why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5723,4932],"tags":[5585,3642],"yst_prominent_words":[6616,10627,10623,10632,8649,10626,10624,7517,10629,10628,10631,10630,10625],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/page_turner_death_stare.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-8ND","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33829"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47713,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33829\/revisions\/47713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33829"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}