It was awful! I felt trapped and was unable to escape the dreadful performance. It was a waste of talent, money and time.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard the Spanish group played better. Someone said, “this is not technique; it’s nature!” Sounds right – either first or second nature. There’s nothing she can’t play. She does have a left hand that should scare off any potential mugger. If there was anyone waiting for wrong notes, he went home sad.

The Beethoven was fine as well. The first movement Allegro was a bit more tempestuous than usual, and the last movement was on the fast side. But the point is it worked; it was totally plausible.

She also knows how to play dreamy as witness every other Scriabin piece.

I kept predicting she’d play a Schubert impromptu to show us that she had another side. Well, we did get Schubert via Liszt as the third or fourth encore. She’s very generous with encores.

She’s young and talented as hell, and I hope in time she’ll turn to more substantial music. What I mean is: not the piano version of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice or that wild first encore which sounded vaguely Prokoffiesque to me.

Many of these pieces, performed brilliantly this afternoon – I forgot to mention Ms. Wang’s striking crescendo – just don’t go very far in musical terms.

If I were conspiratorially minded, I’d suggest that in future she lure people into the hall with thunderous Rachmaninoff and beautiful gowns and then play middle Beethoven and/or late Mozart and the Brahms sonata that was at one time on the program.

Can’t keep all the encores straight: there was Gretchen am Spinnrad (Schubert), the aria from Thais (Massenent) Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Dukas) and that first sorta Prokoffisquy thing, maybe a Vision Fugitive. Anything esle?

Three things:

1. Wang is good. Quirky, but good.

2. How hard is it to turn off your f’n cell phone? Not just the guy in front of you or next to you or behind you. But YOU? How hard?

3. If you have a cough, stay home. I don’t care if you bought a ticket. I don’t care if you want to hear the show. I don’t want to hear you coughing, and neither do the other 3,500 people in Hill. Who says that it’s the youngsters who have no manners?