2010 Winter Concerts Plan: Lang Lang at the Scala
In Scaliger cycle dedicated to Chopin and Schumann, the last event before the break summer was an artist I'd heard about but which I had never even heard a recording. So I was curious to hear it, even to understand how he would have approached from the eastern to western music, also in May, already knew that the piano cycle in the 2010-11 season would be entrusted only to Lang Lang and prefigured the issue of renewal of ' subscription to get an idea about this music became important to me.
let us just a doubt that the exit of the theater still gripped many in the audience: Lang is Chinese, not Japanese. Indeed, he has achieved a number of Chinese as a musician like no other primates his countryman before, working first with the larger theaters and conductors in the world. The passion for the instrument he was born in very early age, "just two years," he confessed to Italian TV, in an interview with the TG3, as he watched cartoons. Hence the constant engagement in the study of the instrument, which will place him in the Conservatory at age 9 and fame only 17.
Today, less than 30 years he is constantly called on by institutions and is a professor at the music conservatories in China. Here are several events organized in collaboration with the "Lang Lang International Music Foundation" which supports young talents since 2008 and has as its aim the music education of children. Very attentive to the problems of their country and sensitive to social issues, in 2008, is auctioning one of his piano, a Steinway red, the proceeds went to help people affected by the earthquake in China that year.
Going back in time, in 2004 Lang was appointed UNICEF ambassador and has created five versions of the Steinway piano called "Lang Lang Steinway TM" to facilitate learning the instrument from elementary school children.
In 2007, Lang was invited to perform as a soloist at the concert for the award of the Nobel Prizes in Stockholm, while in 2008 he performed for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards as well as having participated come testimonial nelle cerimonie olimpiche di Pechino; quest’anno invece la Cina lo ha voluto come ambasciatore nel mondo dell’Expo di Shanghai.
Nella sua carriera egli ha suonato per capi di stato e numerose personalità pubbliche, tra cui Kofi Annan, George W. Bush, Putin, la regina Elisabetta II d’Inghilterra, Sarkozy e Hu Jin-Tao, tanto che il World Economic Forum lo ha annoverato tra i 250 giovani più influenti del mondo. Inoltre egli partecipa a un importante progetto, la YouTube Symphony Orchestra, il cui scopo è allargare il pubblico della musica classica, soprattutto nei giovani.
Tutti questi impegni e riconoscimenti mostrano la grande personalità di Lang, la cui bravura vista dal vivo è impressionante. At the Scala gig he added two more pieces to the program, Beethoven's another one of Albéniz, because in his view of music there may be limitations to their expression, and although the sky was devoted to Schumann and Chopin, this should not be an impediment to tackle other composers. On the floor he is eccentric, exaggerated in the movements, expression and facial expressions with the result of a sound absorbing and exciting. Listening to us is convinced that Western music can also be understood and interpreted by the Eastern, not only focusing on a cool technique, as has been said of some singers, but also with feeling. Overall
I was conquered by Lang and I am convinced that renew your subscription for next year, with a whole series of his concerts, it was the thing I did after this concert soon.
Beatrice Eleanor
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