{"id":96732,"date":"2026-10-31T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96732"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:24:21","slug":"review-hong-kong-pianist-john-lee-does-justice-to-rachmaninov-and-more-despite-dry-acoustics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96732","title":{"rendered":"Review | Hong Kong pianist John Lee does justice to Rachmaninov and more despite dry acoustics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/30\/cf84d42f-6dff-468f-8f60-90f4fd41310a_a65ba2e4.jpg?itok=yWGGMLdR&amp;v=1793355064\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The marketing of classical music concerts has increasingly focused on the musician rather than the music, with the often ephemeral cult of personality perceived as more valuable than the notes they play, at least in drawing an audience.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">So, it was refreshing to hear the fine young musician John Lee play.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After studying at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he is now a member of the faculty, Lee earned a master\u2019s degree from the Royal College of Music in London with distinction and went on to win major international competitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3372718\/hong-kong-pianist-john-lee-does-justice-rachmaninov-and-more-despite-dry-acoustics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marketing of classical music concerts has increasingly focused on the musician rather than the music, with the often ephemeral cult of personality perceived as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32309,7020,3569,1175,556,5231,1063,7889,32308,28],"class_list":["post-96732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-acoustics","tag-dry","tag-hong","tag-john","tag-justice","tag-kong","tag-lee","tag-pianist","tag-rachmaninov","tag-review","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}