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	Lang Lang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lang Lang (郎朗, pinyin: Láng Lǎng) (born June 14, 1982) is a pianist who hails from Shenyang, China.
		Lang Lang's breakthrough came in 1999, when he was 17, with his dramatic last-minute substitution (introduced by Isaac Stern) for an indisposed André Watts at the Ravinia Festival's "Gala of the Century", in which he played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Christoph Eschenbach).
		Lang Lang has performed with the major orchestras of the world, including the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, and the St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lang_Lang (580 words)

	Lang Lang, Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lang Lang is a small town on the eastern coast of Western Port just off the South Gippsland Highway, in the Shire of Cardinia, 85km south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
		The village is on the Lang Lang river and is the centre of the largest asparagus growing region in the southern hemisphere, and also caters to beef and dairy farming.
		General Motors Holden operates the Lang Lang vehicle proving ground, a vehicle development, durability testing, safety test centre and exhaust emission facility, located on the South Gippsland Highway near Lang Lang.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lang_Lang,_Victoria (167 words)

	UNICEF - Quiénes somos - UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lang Lang visits Tanzania to raise awareness on malaria
		UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lang Lang (centre), welcomed by a group of children in the village of Mkuza in the eastern district of Kibaha, Tanzania.
		Lang Lang is wearing traditional Tanzanian garments he has received during his visit to the village.
		Lang Lang was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in May 2004 at the young age of 21.
	www.unicef.org /spanish/people/people_22812.html (547 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Lang Lang Puts a Shine On the 'Rach Three'
		I say "reassuring" because there had been some reason to believe that Lang Lang (he always uses both names) was lately expending rather too much care on being a virtuoso and not enough on being a musician.
		In the past year or two, there seemed to be emerging an undue emphasis on flash and the sheer mechanics of playing the piano; the poetic introspection he had displayed in 1999 and 2000 seemed to be eroding as he quickly became famous.
		There was nothing ostentatious about the performance: Lang Lang simply moved in and conquered the work's flabbergasting technical and musical difficulties.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A38157-2003Oct3?language=printer (670 words)

	Lang Lang live broadcast - Munich
		When Lang Lang was nine years old, his family moved to Bejing, to enable him to study at the Central Conservatory there.
		Lang Lang, in fact, seems intoxicated with his music, resulting in near-unconquerable difficulties being played with the same abandon as the easier pieces.
		They sat there, saturated with the excellence of his performance, and when Lang Lang had played his final note he was rewarded with such an enormous amount of applause that it was clear the clapping would go one until he played some more.
	www.toytownmunich.com /archive/lang_lang_live_broadcast.html (1071 words)

	classical music - andante - lang lang
		Lang Lang and his parents arrived from China without much (his mother had been a telephone operator, his father a folk musician) and lived without much for years; he has usually traveled to and from glittering engagements at glamorous venues by intercity bus so as to save money.
		Lang Lang is so committed to this plan, in fact, that he recently bought a home in Philadelphia for himself and his parents after years of living in a one-bedroom apartment.
		Lang Lang seems not to have thought too much about how necessary his own physical response is to what comes out at the keyboard.
	andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=14949&highlight=1&... (934 words)

	Lang Lang CD eview
		Lang breaks up and re-frames phrase sections into mini tableaus, continually refreshing the ear with new ways of hearing the thematic material.
		Lang redefines the term "touch," rendering the block dynamics of Haydn's score with a level of chiselled precision rarely encountered.
		And in its final movement - Intermezzo in e-flat minor - Lang is at the pinnacle of his expressive powers, separating high, plaintive melody from the soft, undulating ground as he builds to a dramatic plateau, only to decrescendo with percolating action into playing of barely audible softness.
	arizonachambermusic.org /LangLangCDreview.htm (484 words)

	Lang Lang: Carnegie Hall Recital Debut
		Lang massaged and dragged the musical line, but the result was mannered, tendentious and boring.
		In August 2002, the Chicago Tribune panned Lang’s “assault” on concertos by Grieg and Rachmaninoff at the Ravinia Festival.
		Lang's head seems to be so full of his own hype that there can't be much room left for analytic thinking." It advised Lang to “spend a couple of months playing chamber works with fine musicians young and old and remember what it means to be a serious performing artist.”
	www.scena.org /columns/anson/031108-PA-acis.html (890 words)

	Lang LANG
		Lang LANG was born in Shenyang (China) and took up piano when his was 3.
		He demonstrated outstanding achievements in all areas of studies and in 1997 was enrolled in the prestigious Curtis Institute in Philadelphia where Lang is currently studying with Garry Graffman, the Institute's director.
		Lang Lang is a prize-winner of many international contests.
	www.philharmonia.spb.ru /persa/lang_lang.html (137 words)

	Andrew Lang - Free Online Library
		Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk, Scotland on March 31st, 1844.
		Lang's first publication was The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872).
		Pursuing his interest in Scottish history, Lang wrote The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906) and James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902).
	lang.thefreelibrary.com (338 words)

	UNICEF - Quiénes somos - Lang Lang
		Lang Lang will work with UNICEF to bring awareness to the needs and the rights of children throughout the world, focussing on child survival and immunization issues.
		Born into a musical family in Shenyang, China, Lang Lang began his piano studies at the age of three, giving his first public recital when he was only five.
		Lang Lang's reputation spread so quickly that a biography in Chinese appeared in bookstores in China prior to his 17th birthday.
	www.unicef.org /spanish/people/people_lang_lang.html (438 words)

	Lang Lang: Piano Prodigy - CBS News
		Lang Lang’s mind is never very far from his music, which helps when you’re working with the best in the business -- as he did on a remarkable recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and maestro Daniel Barenboim.
		Lang Lang’s father spent half his yearly salary — $300 — and bought his son a piano when he was a toddler.
		Lang Lang was a standout at the Beijing Conservatory and, at 13, he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/01/07/60minutes/main665508.shtml (1434 words)

	Brief History of Lang Lang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Part of the Lang Lang area was first settled in 1839 by two settlers, Jamieson and Rawsort, who established a station which they named Yallock, and their homestead was near the Yallock creek.
		Various reasons were given for the official name change to Lang Lang, but Lord Carrington was not even a Victorian Governor and there was a strong preference for the bush names.
		Lang Lang was formerly in the Shire of Cranbourne but now in the newly created Shire of Cardinia.
	www.sympac.com.au /~langlang/briefhistory.html (323 words)

	Gary Lang - Lang Environmental (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lang draws from twenty-eight (28) years of construction and environmental management experience, ten (10) years of which were with such firms as Rust Engineering, Envirotech Corporation, and other design/construction organizations as well as eighteen (18) years in his own environmental abatement business.
		Lang in early 1981, Lang Environmental grew to become one of the Southeast's leading remediation/demolition companies generating over $55 million in contract sales in addition to construction management services on some $200 million of air pollution contracts.
		Lang is a member of The National Society of Professional Engineers, The National Lead Abatement Council, The Environmental Information Council and a charter member of it's predecessor; The National Asbestos Council.
	www.lang-eng.com /lees_garylang.html (331 words)

	Robert Lang - Lang Environmental (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lang is responsible for overall corporate operations primarily focusing on long range financial and strategic planning.
		Lang also developed and implemented a strategic growth plan to expand the company into a regional general contractor and remediation contactor in 1998.
		Lang is a member of The Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), and a member of the Board of Directors for Southern Commerce Bank, both located in Tampa, Florida.
	www.lang-eng.com /lees_robertlang.html (358 words)

	Telarc International: Lang Lang
		When Lang Lang made his sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in April 2001 with the Baltimore Symphony under Yuri Temirkanov, The New York Times wrote: "He is stunning." In August 2001 he made his London debut at the BBC Proms performing Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3 for this album.
		Lang Lang returns to Beijing in October 2002 with the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel, as soloist on their Asian tour.
		Lang Lang has won numerous awards at international piano competitions beginning at the age of five, when he won first prize in the Shen Yang Piano Competition, after which he gave his first public recital.
	www.telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=129 (528 words)

	Lang Lang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lang is currently in the midst of a North American tour with the China Philharmonic, and tonight he’ll play in Toronto, in a virtually sold-out engagement presented by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Roy Thomson Hall.
		Poverty, separation and an uncertain future were taking their toll on the Langs – but the family’s financial and emotional investments began to pay off when their son, at the age of 15, was admitted to Philadelphia’s elite Curtis Institute of Music with a full scholarship.
		Lang has been through some challenging times –; but his path has been smooth compared to the adversities pianists in China faced a generation earlier.
	www.colineatock.com /lang.htm (1196 words)

	Lang Lang & District Historical Society
		A report in the Lang Lang Guardian says in 1902 the weather was "glorious" and a large crowd attended the sports meeting.
		Lang Lang is described in 1887 as " A postal township, 76 miles SE of Melbourne, with hotel, church, general store and State School; and is situated about 20 miles E. of Cranbourne, on the road leading top the Bass.
		The first edition of the Lang Lang Guardian (at the time the only newspaper in the Cranbourne Shire) was printed in a little building in Roseberry St in February 1902.
	www.langlang.net /historical.html (1042 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Some major critics and conductors believe Lang Lang may very well be the most talented pianist of his generation.
		SCHRODER (voice-over): This was Lang Lang's very first public performance at the age of 5, in his hometown of Shang Yang, China.
		LANG LANG'S FATHER (through translator): This instrument, it's called an erhu, which is like a Chinese violin.
	robots.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0206/16/sm.05.html (945 words)

	Lang Lang - Biography
		In June Lang Lang travels to Beijing with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Wolfgang Sawallisch for a tour celebrating the orchestra's 100th anniversary, during which he performs to an audience of 8000 at the Great Hall of the People.
		Lang Lang joins the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel for performances in New York, followed by a tour of Asia.
		In November Lang Lang makes his triumphant Carnegie Hall recital début, which is recorded live by Deutsche Grammophon and released on CD and DVD in 2004.
	www.langlang.com /artistmicrosite/biography.htms?ART_ID=LANLA (1076 words)

	Amazon.com: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Paganini Rhapsody: Music: Sergey Rachmaninov,Valery Gergiev,Mariinsky ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact the only way Lang Lang could obtain 5 stars is if you compare him to the 99.9 percent of the population that could not play this in the first piece.
		Lang Lang is best at highlighting the internal tensions of a work like this one, and at exciting the audience to experience the narrative's many images and plots.
		Moreover, I think Lang Lang is able to achieve what Barthes calls a "scriptible" (writable, as opposed to "lisible," or readable) text, which allows the reader to complicate the all too familar codes of language (and in Lang's case, of music).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006SSOOK?v=glance (1245 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Lang Lang is so-so; Davis is superb
		Supported by the talents of conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony, Lang Lang nevertheless turns in a mediocre performance unworthy of his stellar abilities.
		Only in the second movement does Lang Lang show what he is truly capable of in his fluid playing that captures the character of the music admirably.
		Lang Lang redeems himself in his reading of Mendelssohn's Concerto No. 1 in G minor.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590039855,00.html (402 words)

	NPR : Lang Lang, Live in Studio 4A
		Lang Lang and his father, Gorin Lang, recently joined NPR's John Ydstie in Studio 4A to talk about Western music, traditional Chinese music and the meeting between the two.
		Lang Lang started on the piano at age 3, and held his first concert at age 5 in northern China.
		Lang Lang is well known for his technical skill, but also for his dramatic presentation.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1230840 (375 words)

	Lang, Andrew on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		LANG, ANDREW [Lang, Andrew] 1844-1912, English scholar and man of letters, b.
		Lang was one of the first to apply anthropological findings to the study of myth and folklore; his best work in this field was Myth, Literature, and Religion (1887, rev. ed.
		Lang also wrote literary and art criticism, a biography of J. Lockhart (1896), and several works on Scottish history, culminating in his History of Scotland (4 vol., 1900-1907).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lang-A1nd.asp (481 words)

	NPR: Performance Today -- Lang Lang -- Live in Studio 4A
		In July 2002, Lang Lang was featured in a week-long residency at the Ravinia Festival, where he played five sold-out concerts including a solo recital, two concerto performances with the Chicago Symphony, a recital of Schubert duos with Christoph Eschenbach, and a program of Chinese traditional music with his father, Guo-ren Lang.
		In September 1996, Lang Lang performed as the soloist at the inaugural concert of the China National Symphony, which President Jiang Ze-Min attended as guest of honor.
		Lang Lang's talent is matched by his ebullient personality, making him an ideal ambassador for classical music and a role model for young people.
	www.npr.org /programs/pt/4a/langlang.html (843 words)

	classical music - andante - lang lang signs with deutsche grammophon
		Lang Lang's first Deutsche Grammophon CD, to be released in July, will include Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn piano concertos, recorded with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
		The first was a 2001 solo recital at Tanglewood; the second included Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto, recorded at a 2002 BBC Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall, and a series of Scriabin Etudes which was recorded in a studio with an audience.
		Conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, with Lang Lang (piano).
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=19938 (350 words)

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