Weekly News Briefs On Saturday, Dec. 18, 8 pm, the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra (LVCO) will presenta unique concert featuring 17year-old virtuoso pianist lang lang. http://www.tnonline.com/archives/news/1999-weeklies/12.01/lehigh/briefs.html
Extractions: TN ONLINE COLUMNISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Concert to feature 17-year-old pianist On Saturday, Dec. 18, 8 p.m., the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra (LVCO) will present a unique concert featuring 17-year-old virtuoso pianist Lang Lang. The Saturday-only performance will take place at the Dorothy and Dexter Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, 24th and Chew streets, Allentown. The program, chosen by music director and conductor Donald Spieth, will feature Rossini's Overture to the "Barber of Seville"; Haydn's Symphony no. 45 in F# minor "Farewell," Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture; and Mendelssohn's Concerto for Piano no. 1 in G minor, op. 25. The Mendelssohn Concerto will feature 17-year-old pianist, Lang Lang. Born in Shen Yang, China, Lang Lang began his piano studies at the age of 3 at the Music College, under Professor Zhu Ya Fen. In 1993, he entered the China Central Music Conservatory. Excelling in all aspects of his classes, he was accepted into the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1997, where he currently studies with Gary Graffman.
:: Veranstaltungen 2002 :: der 20-jährige, in der Mandschurei geborene pianist lang-lang mit wahrhaft http://www.steinwayaustria.at/a_veranstaltungen2002.htm
Extractions: Sie haben ein altes Klavier und überlegen schon länger, sich ein neues zu kaufen? Vielleicht haben Sie auch noch irgendwo die Rechnung aufgehoben? Von 2. bis 7. Dezember 2002 heißt es in Wien, Salzburg und bei unserem Steinway-Partner in Innsbruck "Wählen Sie neu!" Denn wir rechnen Ihnen beim Kauf eines neuen Steinway- oder Boston-Instrumentes - je nach Zustand Ihres alten Instrumentes bis zu 100% des Anschaffungspreis an! 30. 11. 2002, WIEN "This is against the law", schwärmte Daniel Barenboim gleichermaßen erstaunt und begeistert, als der 20-jährige, in der Mandschurei geborene Pianist LANG-LANG mit wahrhaft unglaublicher Intensität und Virtuosität Oktavenläufe in den Steinway donnerte. Im Steinway-Haus Wien trafen die beiden einander zum ersten Mal und erarbeiteten in zwei dreistündigen Proben das erste Klavierkonzert Tschaikowskys. Sie werden es im Frühjahr mit dem Chicago Symphony Orchestra aufnehmen.
Ravinia Sitting Pretty This Summer With Lively Lineup 1 with pianist PierreLaurent Aimard and conductor James Conlon July 18; No. 2,Emanuel Ax and Leonard Slatkin, July 5; No. 4, lang lang and Eschenbach, Aug. http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-rav20.html
Extractions: The last two summers have been exceptionally monsoon-free. But beyond placating the rain gods, the Ravinia Festival must have been doing something right with its musical lineup. While most arts and entertainment venues are worrying about declining attendance and escalating debt, Ravinia is coming off two seasons of setting attendance records beyond the 600,000 mark. Its budgets are relatively balanced, despite pressure on longtime corporate supporters including United Airlines. Building on this strong foundation, the festival has announced plans for a lively classical music lineup for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and guest artists and ensemble this summer. The classical highlights of the season running June 6-Sept. 8 are many, from soprano Jane Eaglen's Chicago area recital debut Aug. 19 and Alicia de Larrocha's farewell recital Aug. 20 to orchestral blockbusters from Beethoven to John Adams throughout the season. This will be Christoph Eschenbach's final season as music director. After becoming Ravinia's musical chief in 1995, he takes the helm of the Philadelphia Orchestra in September, though he will return to Ravinia as a guest conductor in coming seasons. This summer he will conduct eight of the CSO's 24 concerts July 25-27 and Aug. 3-5 and 9-10. Throughout the season the focus will be on three B's dear to Eschenbach's heart: Beethoven, Berlioz and Leonard Bernstein.
LANG LANG ENCORE PERFORMANCE Rachmaninoff, Tan Dun and Liszt Taking the music world by storm, lang lang has drawn TheLos Angeles Times said, He is a staggering pianist with a very rare http://www.tbpac.org/shows/fl_orch_lang_04/fl_orch_lang_04.html
Extractions: Taking the music world by storm, Lang Lang has drawn comparisons to such piano masters as Vladimir Horowitz and has garnered high praise around the world. The Los Angeles Times said, "He is a staggering pianist with a very rare and special attribute the ability to give, from the moment his fingers touch the keyboard, an audience utter, uncompromising pleasure."
La Scena Musicale Articles / Article De La Scena Musicale lang's fingers work magic, John Terauds, Toronto Star, 2/23/2003. pianist Devotesan Evening to the Concept of Fantasy, Allan Kozinn, New York Times, 2/20/2003. http://piano.scena.org/
Extractions: Photo: Jonas Kaufmann, Mike Richter New Leos' Janac'ek - Animal magic , Norman Lebrecht The new disorder , Norman Lebrecht Stalin: his final victim , Norman Lebrecht Hyperion's Ted Perry - Patron Saint of Independents , Norman Lebrecht As old as war, as young as rock 'n' roll , Robert Everett-Green , Globe And Mail, What Has Midori Done for an Encore? Plenty
Culture - The Journal Twentyyear-old internationally-acclaimed pianist lang lang performs for an audienceat a free lecture and demonstration at Webster Community Music School in http://websterjournal.collegepublisher.com/sections/115382.html
Saint Paul Sunday, October 2001 Broadcast Listings Chinese pianist lang lang, who has just turned nineteen, is this kind of artist,and he is Bill McGlaughlin's guest this week on Saint Paul Sunday. http://sunday.mpr.org/listings/shows01_10.htm
Extractions: It's often assumed that musical maturity comes with age; however, there are those who are meant to break such rules, to the delight of their audience. Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who has just turned nineteen, is this kind of artist, and he is Bill McGlaughlin's guest this week on Saint Paul Sunday . Lang Lang has won international competitions and performed with leading orchestras from a very young age, and his youthful enthusiasm, great sensitivity and blazing fireworks have been earning him rave reviews around the world. A captivating musical storyteller, Lang Lang will bring us a delightful Haydn sonata, six pieces of Brahms' Opus 118, and the spectacular "Islamey (Oriental Fantasy)" by Russian composer Mily Balakirev. Tune in for sounds that are guaranteed to thrill. Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata in E major, Hoboken XVI:31
December - 2000 8 1. Chicago Artists 2D Art 2. Exhibit 5 3. Lake Zurich Chorale Group4. lang lang, pianist 5. Mark Twain`s Big River , 9 1. Chicago http://www.northstarnet.org/cgi-bin/Admin/Calendar/calendar_new.cgi?year=2000&mo
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.
Lang Lang lang lang. 3/25/2003 McCallum Theater 17-year old pianist; 8 pm, tickets $20-55,call (760) 340-2787 or www.mccallumtheatre.com Sponsored byMcCallum Theatre. http://www.cityofpalmdesert.org/ViewEvent.asp?EID=278
Peabody News | September/October 2001 Sometime last April, my friend Anadel Rich and I drove from Washington to Baltimoreto hear pianist lang lang play the Grieg concerto under Yuri Temirkanov's http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/concerts-and-events/pn/sept01/vancliburn.html
Extractions: In Search of the Unforgettable Sound By France Graage Sometime last April, my friend Anadel Rich and I drove from Washington to Baltimore to hear pianist Lang Lang play the Grieg concerto under Yuri Temirkanov's direction. We had the best seats in Meyerhoff Hall, balcony on the left, almost, but not quite above the stage. Walking on stage, the conductor and the young pianist were an image of friendship and complicity. Lang Lang sat down and immediately dove into the large chords of the opening phrase. We sank back into our chairs and from then on we were carried away. Later, Anadel mentioned that, when Lang Lang began those big opening chords, she experienced the same thrill that she has often felt at the movies when the lights go down and the MGM lion roars. Anadel and I had been asked by the Washington Performing Arts Society to choose the artists for the Patrick Hayes and Evelyn Swarthout Piano Series at the Terrace Theatre in Washington, D.C., and Lang Lang is one of our choices for the coming season. Our mission is to raise the profile of the series, which means finding the best young, or not so young, but still relatively unknown pianists available, keeping in mind certain budgetary limits, of course. This task is something of a dream assignment for me as I have, for a long time, tried to help artists develop their careers. Part of the scope of the task is to work within a new environment of cooperative programming among regional presenters which is being developed by the WPAS and other
The Quintessential Eddie Lang 1925 1932 On such occasions, a pianist and reed player completed the lineup. The vibrantpresence of the Venuti/lang partnership enhanced many commercial dance band http://www.redhotjazz.com/langarticle.html
Extractions: Yet it is highly unlikely that the instrument would have evolved in the way it did without two major factors, both of which occurred in the mid 1920s: the introduction of the electrical recording process and the arrival in New York of the Philadelphia born guitarist, Eddie Lang . His trail blazing achievements were made possible by this technological breakthrough. Until that time the banjo was the emblem of popular music, principally because out of all musical instruments, its percussive twang was best equipped to cut through the murkiness of the acoustic horn recording process. Indeed, the most popular early recordings were banjo solos, usually transcribed from piano rags, and often interpreted by such virtuosi as Fred Van Eps and Harry Reser Before the introduction of microphone recording, the guitar was seldom heard outside the concert hall, or in less formal folk circles, such as flamenco or gipsy. As early as 1922, just prior to the new recording process, when the singer Nick Lucas, The Singing Troubadour, began his studio career (which lasted over four decades) he accompanied himself on guitar, although his style was rooted in the ragtime tradition of the banjoists. Between them, the new technology and Eddie Lang created an entirely fresh role for the guitar, and in the process helped change the sound of popular music.
Local News by Deborah Stone For one spectacular evening, Chineseborn pianist lang lang performedworks by Handel, Brahms, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky and Balakirev at Meany http://www.nwnews.com/editions/20010205/local1.html
2000-01 Cornell Concert Series and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will showcase its extraordinary new music director,Yuri Temirkanov, with the talents of 17year-old pianist lang lang. http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/00/8.31.00/concert_series.html
Extractions: From the sublime artistry of 20-year-old violinist Hilary Hahn to the visceral power of Japanese percussion ensemble Kodo to the imaginative melding of new music with a 1928 silent film about Joan of Arc, the 97th season of the Cornell Concert Series brings a world of musical excitement to Ithaca. The Cornell Concert Series brings Japanese percussion ensemble Kodo to Bailey Hall March 13. Ryuichi Okano The primary goal of the CCS is to bring to campus world-class musicians who push the envelope in terms of virtuosity, expressivity, new repertoire and new artistic combinations. The second appearance by the women's vocal quartet Anonymous 4 is an example. The sensuous purity of the women's singing of medieval music inspired composer Richard Einhorn to create his oratorio "Voices of Light" with their voices in mind. In this beautiful new oratorio, which will be performed simultaneously with a screening of the 1928 silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc," Anonymous 4 sing, together, the voice of Joan. Described as "lush," "brilliantly effective" and "moving" by The New York Times Washington Post and Chicago Sun-Times , the oratorio also calls for a large chorus (the Cornell Glee Club and Chorus) and orchestra (the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra). Scott Tucker, director of choral activities at Cornell, will conduct the Feb. 4 performance.
[echeng.com/output] - 01/16/2003: "Lang Lang" of the lower orchestra section of Davies Symphony Hall to hear lang lang performRachmaninoff's when seeing him play last year he is the best pianist I have http://www.echeng.com/output/archives/00000236.shtml
Extractions: Journal Previous Entry: 01/16/03 ... Next Entry: 01/17/03 Posted at 11:49 PM PST: "Lang Lang" Instead of heading to bed after returning home yesterday, I met up with Vienna Oliver , Mel, Emile , and Zhenya in the first row of the lower orchestra section of Davies Symphony Hall to hear Lang Lang perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. I actually planned my trip around coming back into town to see him perform. He was absolutely stunning! At times, he literally vibrated with an energy that I felt might make him burst; it was thoroughly infectious, and none of us cared that we were sitting under the piano, unable to really hear a "proper" balanced sound from any of the instruments (it helped that all of us know the piece fairly well). I had the same reaction I had when seeing him play last year: he is the best pianist I have ever seen perform. I write that because I enjoy his performances more than I do other ones. The two performances of his I've seen stand out in every way I can imagine. Oh!
CD Review Lang Lang, Yuri Temirkanov And The St. Petersburg Since his careermaking performance at the Ravinia Festival in 1999, Chinesepianist lang lang has become a major new voice in the classical world. http://www.redludwig.com/reviews/archive/041702.html
Extractions: CD Review: Lang Lang, Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 3.; Scriabin: Etudes (Telarc) Buy it here Since his career-making performance at the Ravinia Festival in 1999, Chinese pianist Lang Lang has become a major new voice in the classical world. On this CD, he takes on one of the warhorses of the repertoire, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 (in a performance recorded live at the London Proms in 2001) and makes it his own. Abetted by an elegant and sympathetic reading by Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Lang Lang negotiates the vast range of the work with a dazzling technical and expressive elan. From the simple folk-tinged opening theme to the breathless build-up of the finale, the pianist displays an astonishing grasp of the concerto's broad melodic visions and the myriad intricacies of its countless shifts in mood and emotion.
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA . SUPPORT THE LPO In the presence of LPO patron His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, the virtuosicpianist lang lang will perform a private recital, which will be followed by a http://www.lpo.co.uk/support_the_lpo/gala.html
Living - The Cincinnati Post Concert review by Mary Ellyn Hutton Post contributor Whether Chineseborn pianistlang lang will change the world as Teen People predicted in its April http://www.cincypost.com/2003/02/28/cso02-28-2003.html
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SFS Press Release San Francisco, December 17, 2002 WHAT Twenty yearold Chinese pianist LangLang returns to Davies Symphony Hall January 15-18 for San Francisco Symphony http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/pressReleasePrint.asp?releaseid=149
Extractions: 8pm in Jones Hall Award-winning musical excellence. With Musical America's Ensemble of the Year Award and four Grammys, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has captured the hearts of discerning classical music audiences and enthusiastic newcomers. From Stravinsky and Mozart to jazz-inspired Ravel and Gershwin, they do it all without a conductor! The results are truly powerful, bold, innovative and breathtakingly exquisite. "Orpheus remains one of the great marvels of the musical world " 7pm in Wortham Center's Cullen Theater Her freshness and musical depth is captivating. Time Magazine named her "America's Best" young classical musician. This twenty-something Grammy nominee has established herself as one of the most compelling violin artists on the concert scene. With an irresistible stage presence, her expression of Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky and Beethoven enchants music lovers worldwide. Program: Ernest Bloch Sonata for violin and piano No. 1
