Extractions: Chinese pianist Lang Lang made time for table tennis even on Sunday, just one day ahead of his performance. The sport serves as a sort of warm-up for the young star. "I'm young and crazy. As I get older, I'll naturally regain my sanity,¡± says Chinese pianist Lang Lang at all of 22 years old. Perhaps you have to be crazy to play about 200 concerts a year with top conductors like Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniel Barenboim and Lorin Maazel. Now Lang is in Korea for a joint performance Eschenbach¡¯s Philadelphia Orchestra. But on Sunday, the day before his performance, Lang went to a table tennis club in Seoul's Seocho-dong after finishing his daytime rehearsal. For this pianist, ping-pong is both relaxation and pre-performance warm-up. Smashing the ball around for about 30 minutes, breaking a sweat in the process, Lang starts pouring his heart out. "Herbert von Karajan brought about a renaissance in classical music by making use of new technologies like video recordings. The 21st century could be called the multimedia era because of the Internet, animation, DVDs and games. Why is it that just because you're a classical musician, you have to be shut up inside your music?" he demands. "We may need a computer game that gives you a score as you play the piano so that children can be brought closer to classical music." In April, the pianist played hair dyed green and face made up in front of the puppets of popular kids show "Sesame Street," and last month he performed on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." He's also a netizen who posts his "performance diaries" on his personal homepage (www.langlang.com) two or three times a month.
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SSONET.com.au Sydney Star Observer lang lang is one of the new generation of wunderkinds. The 22year-old pianist was born in Shenyang, the fifth largest city in China, and began piano http://www.ssonet.com.au/display.asp?ArticleID=3460
Taipei Times - Archives lang lang is a piano genius from China whose parents sacrifices have brought them all rewards far beyond their expectations lang lang, Chinese pianist http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/09/04/2003066481
Extractions: TaipeiTimes Advertise Employment FAQ About Us Contact Us Best View in Mozilla Search Advanced Search Most Read Story Most Viewed Photo Login ... Free sign up! Print Mail Wikipedia Giving birth to a piano prodigy and profiting from it Lang Lang is a piano genius from China whose parents' sacrifices have brought them all rewards far beyond their expectations Thursday, Sep 04, 2003,Page 16 "When I was little my dad never smiled to me ... We were the stereotypical family with a strict father and a kind mother.." Lang Lang, Chinese pianist The story of Lang Lang, the 21-year-old sensation in the world of the classical piano, begins with his parents and their obsessive dreams for him. When his mother was pregnant, she listened to countless hours of Western classical music a rare practice in China hoping to transmit the rhythms to the fetus. Before he turned two, his mother and father spent half of their yearly income to buy him a piano. His parents have lived apart since he was nine to accommodate his career.
Extractions: On Friday the science journal Nature published a series of papers on malaria and its control. Focusing on this preventable and curable disease is crucial and timely; malaria is the biggest killer of children in Africa accounting for over 1 million deaths world wide each year. Furthermore, we are now at the halfway point through the World Health Organization's (WHO) Roll Back Malaria program which can only be described as an unmitigated failure. Unless urgent and far reaching reforms are made to Roll Back Malaria and its partner organizations, malaria's death toll will continue unabated. One partner, UNICEF, the UN children's agency, is even sending a pianist instead of urgently needed nets and drugs The WHO, World Bank, the
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Extractions: About PRX How to use PRX Help Sign Up ... Networks Browse pieces by length, topic, and format all search options PRX Home Pieces Part of Series Musicians in their own words Length Licensor WUNC Producer(s) David Schulman Formats First-person essay Interview Topics Music Produced Added to PRX http://www.langlang.com Supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting October : On tour. Engaging Personal English Four years ago in Chicago, one of the world's great pianists, Andre Watts, was too sick to play. At show time, no less a musician than Isaac Stern walked onstage. But not to perform. Instead, Stern introduced a 17-year-old musician few in the audience had heard of before. In this feature, Lang Lang (pronounced "lung lung") describes his approach to the piece he played that evening in Chicago Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. This offering is especially designed for classical stations, and can be used to introduce a music selection. Lang Lang is touring widely, and this piece also works well pegged to a local performances.
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Extractions: Home Playlists Programs A to Z Hosts ... Email Andrew Piano Lessons Complex circumstances still surround the impending departure of Daniel Barenboim from his post as the ninth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Some members of the CSO remain in a state of mourning and shock over the resignation of this protean genius, as do many orchestra subscribers and patrons. Others think that the temperamental and willful Barenboim cannot leave soon enough. Whichever side of the Barenboim divide one falls on, however, his 2005 Chicago schedule finds him presenting challenging and rich programs with the orchestra, and performing as well in chamber music programs and as a concerto soloist with principal guest conductor Pierre Boulez at the podium.
The Age For the recent Master series concerts, young guest pianist lang lang appeared with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Matthias Bamert in an unsettling http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/27/1093518080291.html?from=storyrhs
Chinese Pianist To Give Piano Recital In HKSAR Chinese pianist lang lang will give a piano recital on August 28 at the Piano Recital by lang lang , part of the Encore Series , is presented by http://english.people.com.cn/200307/30/eng20030730_121222.shtml
Extractions: About Us Help Sitemap Archive ... Life Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Celebrated in music capitals throughout the world and demonstrating an extraordinary ability to connect with audiences, Chinese pianist Lang Lang will give a piano recital on August 28 at the Concert Hall of the Hong Kong Cultural Center.
Extractions: Saturday, June 02, 2001, updated at 12:15(GMT+8) Life Piano Prodigy Makes Collaboration Debut with Philadelphia Orchestra Chinese piano prodigy Lang Lang, made his collaboration debut with one of the world's leading orchestras, the Philadelphia Orchestra, on its centennial celebration tour in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday evening.
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Extractions: Diskographie Weitere Informationen Photo Download Biographie Download Als umjubelter Gast in den großen Konzertsälen der Welt verblüfft Lang Lang sein Publikum mit einem äußerst umfangreichen Repertoire auf höchstem musikalischen Niveau. Durch sein Spiel und seine Fähigkeit, mit dem Publikum eine ganz persönliche Verbindung einzugehen, hat er sich international als einer der faszinierendsten Pianisten unserer Zeit etabliert. Als erster chinesischer Pianist wurde er von den Berliner und Wiener Philharmonikern sowie von vielen der führenden Orchester der Welt eingeladen. Es ist ihm eine besondere Herzensangelegenheit vor allem jungen Leuten Musik näher zu bringen. Als Anerkennung für dieses Engagement wurde er vor kurzem von der UNICEF zu ihrem jüngsten Botschafter ernannt. In dieser Funktion wird sich Lang Lang für das Überleben und die Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen für benachteiligte Kinder weltweit einsetzen. Lang Lang konzertierte mit den führenden Orchestern der Welt u.a. in Boston, New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, dem London Philharmonic, dem Orchestre de Paris, dem NHK Symphony, dem Israel Philharmonic und dem St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Er hat mit Dirigenten zusammengearbeitet wie Barenboim, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Gergiev, Jansons, Levine, Maazel, Mehta, Rattle, Sawallisch, Temirkanov, Tilson Thomas und Welser-Möst. Er gibt regelmäßig Rezitals in den großen Konzerthallen der wichtigsten Musikmetropolen der Welt. Zahlreiche Konzertreisen nach Asien mit dem New York Philharmonic und dem Philadelphia Orchestra führten ihn nach China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapur und Malaysia. Für Ende dieses Jahres stehen Silvesterkonzerte mit dem China Philharmonic Orchestra in Shanghai und Peking im Kalender.
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