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Yuja Wang: Conducting is ‘like doing it with the condom off’

Yuja Wang: Conducting is ‘like doing it with the condom off’

Never lost for an eye-catching line, the pianist concludes a dreary interview in the Telegraph with this going-home gift:

I ask Wang about her future career goals and she suggests she’d like to do more simultaneous playing and conducting. “I’ve done a little already and I loved it,” she says, then a cheeky smile pings across her face. “It was like doing it with the condom off!”

Go, Yuja!

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