0:00:02.776,0:00:06.837 (Talks/Authors/Brewmasters/Comedians/Green/Health/Innovators/Musicians/Artists/Filmmakers at Google)[br][Applause] 0:00:06.837,0:00:10.636 Artists at Google[br]Lang Lang The Chopin Album - Interview moderated by Jeff Spurgeon of WOXR[br]October 15th, 2012 [br][Applause] 0:00:10.636,0:00:13.824 [Lang Lang] Good morning. Thanks for being here. 0:00:13.824,0:00:18.591 I'm very happy to be here for the second time, but the first time, I wasn't on the stage. 0:00:18.591,0:00:24.105 I just - I was just visiting the office - it's a very cool office, I must say. 0:00:24.105,0:00:29.696 And yes, I prepared some morning songs for you to wake up. 0:00:29.696,0:00:31.457 [laughter] 0:00:31.457,0:00:38.779 So, a few Chopin pieces. I will start with one of them, a very beautiful Nocturne 0:00:39.748,0:00:45.680 and then, one or two Etudes, and then a Chopin waltz. 0:00:45.707,0:00:52.741 So hopefully, we will get really waked after 20 minutes of performance. Thank you. 0:00:52.741,0:00:58.125 [Applause] 0:00:59.401,0:01:07.359 [Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat major, Opus 55 #2 (?): up to 0:06:44] 0:06:44.199,0:06:50.755 [Etude - which?: up to 0:06:11] 0:08:11.375,0:08:16.798 (8:11) [Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3: up to 0:13:01] 0:13:01.667,0:13:07.178 [Chopin: Waltz op 64 #1 (?): up to 0:16:42]) 0:16:42.172,0:16:47.856 [Applause] 0:16:52.092,0:17:00.037 [Jeff Spurgeon] Hello. I'm Jeff Spurgeon from WOXR, New York's classical station [unclear: info about reception] 0:17:00.037,0:17:05.825 You may not know, because nobody told you: this is Lang Lang. [laughter] 0:17:05.825,0:17:12.634 He's a classical pianist, reasonably well-known all over the globe 0:17:12.634,0:17:17.794 and it's quite a wonderful thing to hear you play. 0:17:17.794,0:17:21.780 Let me ask you: what was your warm up for this? 0:17:21.780,0:17:23.837 Just this morning: did you warm up this morning? 0:17:23.837,0:17:25.977 [Lang Lang] I - I'm sorry, I didn't warm up: 0:17:25.977,0:17:29.374 I woke up around 10:20 [laughter] 0:17:29.374,0:17:38.376 I mean I was running like crazy - speed - to get here 0:17:38.376,0:17:44.512 and I'm really grateful that I - I mean - you are here today, ...... for me. Thank you very much. 0:17:44.512,0:17:49.473 [Jeff Spurgeon] It's really wonderful - really wonderful. Thank you[br][Applause] 0:17:49.473,0:17:54.455 [Jeff Spurgeon] It's extraordinary to have all that music just in your head, just at your command, 0:17:54.455,0:17:55.647 just - but that's what you do. 0:17:55.647,0:17:58.457 [Lang Lang] Well, as Rubinstein said, you know, one of the greatest pianists, 0:17:58.457,0:18:03.024 and he said, he has like 60 piano concertos in his head. 0:18:03.024,0:18:08.944 And basically doing - in his 70's or 80's he said: 0:18:08.944,0:18:13.978 "Just call me up, wake me up in the middle of the night, like, say, 4 am - 0:18:13.978,0:18:20.568 and I can play whatever piece you want - in concert level" Well, I mean that's - 0:18:20.568,0:18:23.467 [Spurgeon] I believe it but so can you - but so can you. 0:18:23.467,0:18:26.988 He's had - he had a little more practice than you so far, 0:18:26.988,0:18:28.841 but you'll be there. 0:18:28.841,0:18:35.672 In China, Lang Lang is credited with influencing some 40 million kids 0:18:35.672,0:18:38.035 to take up classical piano. 0:18:38.035,0:18:41.612 Now, I know that 40 million is not maybe a huge number at Google, 0:18:41.612,0:18:46.333 but still [audience laughs] it's a reasonably large number of people - [Lang Lang laughs] 0:18:46.333,0:18:50.267 to persuade to take up - and when you think about all the pianos that have to be made, 0:18:50.267,0:18:52.417 and all the music that has to be printed, 0:18:52.417,0:18:54.501 and all the lessons that have to be paid for, 0:18:54.501,0:18:59.774 I would say that you are, without question, classical music's greatest job creator.[laughter] 0:18:59.774,0:19:04.104 I don't think there's anybody who's going to do more than that - than you are. 0:19:04.127,0:19:07.051 Lang Lang's new album on the Sony label is "The Chopin Album". 0:19:07.051,0:19:15.374 It contains at its heart the Opus 25 set of a dozen études, studies for piano, 0:19:15.374,0:19:16.766 that you have been studying since I think you were what? 0:19:16.766,0:19:18.402 Eight it was when you started to play those things? 0:19:18.402,0:19:23.447 [Lang Lang] Yeah, I started to play the Chopin études when I was 8, and - 0:19:23.447,0:19:25.374 [Spurgeon] Took them on the road when you were 12 or 13? 0:19:25.374,0:19:29.702 [Lang Lang] Yeah, I played the complete études when I was 13, right, 0:19:29.702,0:19:35.419 and it was very tiring to play those pieces [laughter]. 0:19:35.419,0:19:39.281 I mean, it drives me nuts and it drives my neighbors nuts [laughter] 0:19:39.281,0:19:41.007 I really feel bad about it, you know. 0:19:41.007,0:19:44.827 And, you see, recently I started practicing in my apartment here, 0:19:44.827,0:19:49.457 and I started practicing the Chopin études, you know [imitates a few notes] 0:19:49.457,0:19:52.540 and then my neighbor knocked at my door: "Can - could you stop?" 0:19:52.540,0:19:53.763 [Spurgeon] Really? Did he really? 0:19:53.763,0:19:56.182 [Lang Lang] Yeah - no no: I mean, 0:19:56.182,0:19:57.651 there's one neighbor who knows who I am, 0:19:57.651,0:20:00.893 so she's always like, "Oh, that's really wonderful!" 0:20:02.216,0:20:06.209 But then, there's another neighbor, I think, living downstairs, 0:20:06.209,0:20:09.045 and - because I always like to practice after 11, you know, 0:20:09.045,0:20:11.910 to find inspiration [laughter] 0:20:11.910,0:20:16.207 And - and this lady, I think she hates me all the time. 0:20:16.207,0:20:17.745 So anyway, that's - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] So you've been playing these since you were 8, playing them in public since you were 13. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Why record them now? Why not a little earlier? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Why not wait a couple more years? Maybe the wine will mellow a little more in the bottle. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Why decide to do these now? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] I mean, since I'm 30, you know, I like to - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to do some more repertoire, which I played a lot when I was a kid, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and also, you know, putting on new pieces. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I actually thought to do the 24 études, the complete cycle, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but I actually - I thought maybe I should do something, not just technical pieces, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but also very artistic pieces combined for the Chopin first solo for me to record. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And also to hear - I was also actually watching the video that I did when I was 13, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 playing the complete études, and I found (?) a few wrong notes, and I [makes dismayed sound] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but now, playing a few of those pieces like "The Winter Wind", "Ocean" études, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 now I feel slightly easier - slightly. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So that seems like a good sign, you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 17 years of practice and my technique is going somewhere [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And - but more importantly, is the musical sense that - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 there are so many new things I'm trying to reinterpret in this album, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that I try to find different colors, like you have here, different levels of colors 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and the combination of the ...... of Chopin, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you know, the Romantic period of répertoire, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and especially last year, I did Liszt. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So I thought this was a nice moment to do Chopin. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So next year will be very different. So - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spuregeon] What's next year? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Next year, I will do Prokofiev and Bartók. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Well! OK So it's very very different, totally different, truly... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There's some unusual pieces on this album. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, a big favorite of yours, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 done with orchestra sometimes, but there is the solo version. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You've always liked this piece? (22:31) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Not really. I mean, when I was a [laughter] - when I was a kid, I hated it, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because I mean, once - no matter how great the work of art, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 there are so many pianists playing the same piece, not in a very good level (?) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 then you will feel kind of bored, you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And so that exactly happens when I was a kid, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you know, I heard so many interpretations of this piece I got totally all around (?) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and I didn't like it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then I came to America and I studied at Curtis' in Philadelphia 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - Do you know the Philly cheese steak? It's pretty good, yeah - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Anyway, so, in Philadelphia, a boy from Kiev, he's - he also studied with the same teacher as me, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Gary Graffman[br][Spurgeon] Gary Graffman 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] and he played it in a student recital. I was shocked by his playing. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm like "Wow! This piece is spectacular!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then I started loving this piece and - thanks to him, of course - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and - so sometimes, you know, one amazing performance 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 really changes your entire view of a work 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and that's what happens in the Spianato and ..... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Now it turns - you played actually a wonderful cross-section of the album 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 just a few minutes ago. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There is a piece on this album, it's the last selection called "Tristesse" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and it features a singer named Oh Land, who is from - [br][Spurgeon and Lang Lang] Sweden 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] She lives in Williamsburg, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because most people do.[br][Lang Lang] Right. [Laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah, Brooklyn is getting ..... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] That's - it's beautiful. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Can you tell me the story of this, because it's from a film? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Right, Trist - we did a film during the Chopin year, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 called "The Flying Machine", so it basically adapts a novel, kind of about Poland today, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and as compared to the Chopin's days. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So actually, I was actor in this movie and my partner was Heather Graham [inaudible] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Yeah, Heather Graham - many faces lit up when you said those words. [Laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Anyway. But that one was pretty classic. ........ 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And so that - that film actually was quite inspiring, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because there was Chopin's music and takes the journey of a piano 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 actually, the piano became a flying machine, sort of, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 we take the kids all over the world. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And so, the theme song, we actually thought the Tristesse (?), which is the Opus 10 #3 étude 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is such a beautiful melody, which I played here, second to the last (?), 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and so we transcribed that to the theme song, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so we got this beautiful voice of - her name is pretty funny: Oh Land - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 yeah, so, in the beginning I didn't know she's a - I mean is a he or she - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but when I heard the voice, I most certainly knew she's a she 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and she did a wonderful job. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Yeah. It's a sweet - it's a sweet song 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and Chopin - lots of people - lots of popular songs have been written on Chopin themes, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but this is another and it is just great[br][Lang Lang] Yes. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Your foundation. Let's talk about that because that's such a big deal: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the Lang Lang International Music Foundation - it's going great guns (?) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you had some kids I think, from part of that program on the Tonight Show? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah: two weeks ago I was on Jay Leno - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Yeah: four minutes of classical music on network television. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was extraordinary. Four whole minutes. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] It was amazing. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You know, these days, it's hard to get classical music on [br][Spurgeon] Exactly right. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] anyway, but I mean, Jay is a good friend 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and I mean, his name is Jay Jay now, after [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] - the Lang Lang. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Oh my god, yes, 400 cars (?) - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 anyway, let's not talk about that. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, we actually had a very fortunate selection of wonderful talents from the Los Angeles area 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and they - there were - I mean some of the kids I know them before, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because they perform with me, my condition- 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Do you mean all kids...... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 10 of them, so Lang Lang played - you played "La Campanella" and the E-flat Waltz 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that you heard part of here, and then ten kids, five other Steinways around in the room 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and they are all doing [inaudible] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah, Turkish March [sings it] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [sings on the Turkish March] And that was so beautiful 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that I really enjoyed working with them, and the way they played, it was magnificent.[br][Spurgeon] [Inaudible] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] And - I mean, I thought I really want, watching, you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 our next generation perform, it's a special moment and for me it's very inspiring 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and that's what our foundation is wanting to do, you know, to work with the next generation of artists 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and to - helping them - to support them to achieve their dreams, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 just like many of the mentors helped me when I was very young. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] So, it's about helping the next generation - not necessarily about classical music? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I mean it is classical-focused I think about it (?). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yes, it will be focused on classical and piano, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but in the same time, we will also - to do some .....(?) with the Grammy people 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and VHI people, so we're trying to - trying to break the boundaries 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 through these wonderful projects 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and I created this "101 pianists" project. So - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] You'll have a hundred pianists with you on stage? That's the idea?[br][Lang Lang] Yes - yes. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 50 pianos, people play 4-hands, the re... is that -[br][Spurgeon] It's also a great job creator too, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 just for the movers.[Laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] I mean, yeah, the movers were quite happy about this, you know, and this, and - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but the reason we wanted this is, as a pianist, we always practice by ourself. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's sometimes very lonely, you know, you are in a dark room, much tougher than this one [laughter]. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I practice hours, hours, it's - it's hard training and for a kid, it's important to have a partner, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 like two kids on one piano, so they can talk a little bit. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And it's like doing your homework, you know, that type of thing. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then, the teachers can teach them, you know, how to play together 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and in the end, we all get together to play, and enjoy the music. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Music making[br][Lang Lang] Yeah. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] October 30th at Carnegie Hall, the Lang Lang International Music Foundation 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is having a big benefit concert, an evening with Joshua Bell and Dee Dee Bridgewater 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and the formerly mentioned Oh Land - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] And Alec Baldwin[br][Spurgeon] And Alec Baldwin will be the host 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and [inaudible] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So what's going to happen that night? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Just a big bunch of music making, I guess' 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Err yes. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] I mean, do you collaborate, are you doing something with Dee Dee Bridgewater? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yes, so - so here I start, playing some Chopin, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and then - with Josh - we play the Grieg Violin and Piano Sonata - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Is he Jay Jay also to you? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Err - Josh Josh. [laughter][br][Spurgeon] Just checking. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] And then [giggles] in the second half, we start with 4 hands, 6 hands, 8 hands - and 10 hands. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] [Laughs] On one piano?[br][Lang Lang] No.[br][Spurgeon] OK. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Just checking. Just checking. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yes, 10 hands on one piano that's - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Well, you'd know each other very well by the end of the piece, you'd be very familiar. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Just like the subway, you know[br][Spurgeon] That's right. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] You are a master, at the age of 30, you are a master, recognized around the globe. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But are you still a student and do you see any of your old teachers? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Gary Graffman was your teacher at Curtis, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and then you've done a little bit of work with Daniel Barenboim.[br][Lang Lang] Absolutely. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] When you see them, do you play for them and ask them for their thoughts? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Is it a lesson they give you - no - how does it work at this level 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 where you are, in your stage of artistry - with these elder mentors, I guess you'd call them? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah. I mean, my teachers were, and still are 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Gary Graffman, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniel Barenboim 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and they helped me tremendously, not just technically but - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Well, I was going to say, they're not going to say: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "You missed the E flat in the 40th bar." or - that's not what they do. So, what are they - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Well, sometimes they do that too. [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But they - because the great musicians like those names, you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 they are much more focused on the understanding 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and also on the traditional interpretations. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So they will show you how the traditional sound. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then we will start discussing about new possibilities - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 how we recreate those moments that the traditional lights (?). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then, you know, they will help me to find out my ways, you know: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I will start to explore some of my ideas on those passages, how I'm going to do it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And obviously, we know that music - there are some, I mean, there are certain styles. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but there are not certain rules, you know, so basically, there are lots of alternatives. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And the important thing is how to organize the alternatives, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and how to - balancing them, having a right pulse (?). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And this is the challenge, because you can do lot of interpretations, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but if they are unbalanced, if what you start, in the end, doesn't make sense, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 then all those feelings are wasted, you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and so, first you free [inaudible], and then you need to limit your interpretations into certain ways. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then, in the concert, you start everything new again, you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 try to get inspired from the actual stage and to recreate new feelings, a new emotion, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but aware of that tradition lines, which will hold every interpretation 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in the right speed and right pulse. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Right. Well, you're part of that tradition. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You're recreating it and making it at the same time. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I should say too that there is time for questions from all of you here - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 a little bit, to just - hold: think of your question -[br][Lang Lang] Hold the line! Hold the line! 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Yeah, exactly. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I've wondered about the transition from Chinese culture to Western culture for you, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in music as well, because you grew up playing this music for a very long time. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 For me, Chinese classical music is - is a little bit strange, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and maybe a little bit difficult to listen to, because I haven't had as much experience with it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You've been steeped in both traditions. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Do you hear them the same way, or do you switch, sort of from one to another? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And you put them together too, because you've done lots of piano transcriptions 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 of traditional Chinese pieces that weren't thought of on a piano. (33:52) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] It's just like this, you know, when you hear American music, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 when you hear a German music, when you hear a - African music, it's different, you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But in the same time, it's all called music. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's like music, I mean, in that we try to express similar subjects, similar feelings 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but use a different wording and a different language. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That's a bit like in the music world. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I mean, obviously, you have to switch fast with the haste (?) of music making. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But in the end of the day, following that (?) I grew up both in the Chinese traditional music 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and in Western classical, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because my father plays erhu, which is a Chinese violin, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Yeah - I mean recently, I found a different interesting thing of the difference between fork and chopsticks 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and the difference between erhu and violin - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Do you see the similarity out there?[br][Spurgeon] Interesting. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Well, erhu has two strings, and violins have four. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] [laughss] and chopsticks: two and a fork, usually four tines. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Right, here we go. So that's the difference. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Very good, that's a very good answer. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Do you - do you think it's - I mean, one of the things with your foundation, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you're helping people to explore classical msic: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 do you think you can make people like classical music? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I was - I feel like, sometimes it's a sales job. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Nobody says: "Oh my God, you've got to hear rock n' roll, you won't believe what that stuff is" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Nobody says that, but about classical music, some of those people say: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Oh, well, if you haven't heard it, you should maybe listen to a little bit of it." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Do you feel like having, I mean, to "sell it"? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The idea of it? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] I mean - my experience of it (?) is pretty funny. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There are two - there are two experiences of it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The first was in America - and then I'll talk about China alright? - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, first in America, I came when I was 15, and then, I was in a regular high school in Philadelphia. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 All those "dudes" and "yammies" (?) 36:09 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then, they asked me: "What do you do here, in this country?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I: "Oh, I'm studying classical music." alright (?): "Classical music? what is that?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [laughter] "Oooh, I know, I know - I'll tell you: are you playing the dudes that already passed, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 like 500 years ago?" [laughter]"You do his work?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I say "Yes, kind of like that but not [inaudible]" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I say: "Just think about Shakespeare, right? He died for many years, but still his work is classic, right?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So there, I know we have a serious problem, you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then a few years later, I went back to China for - for concerts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then - ............ (36:55) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There's one guy who came and he's like: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "I hear so you're recording in the same label as Mozart." [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, you see, it's a total ........ 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but somehow it's quite funny, right? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So - so in a way, that - you know - that gives us the room to sort of have some work to do. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But I don't think we need to "sell" this, you know, this art, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because classical music is so wonderful - it's just - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 people sometimes don't know it, that's it: we just need to, you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 using social media and networks and platforms too. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Can you give an example of social media? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - Just kidding, just kidding: it's Google Talk - it's Google 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah. Yeah, I mean, remember, a few years ago, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 YouTube had a, like a YouTube Symphony Orchestra competition 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and it was a big phenomenon on internet. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I had the great privilege of being their ambassador for - for the proect. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And - so in the future, I mean, today, even like when I tweet or I'm facebooking, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I start to share some of the musical thoughts 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - not just talking about food and movies [br][laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but to share a little bit of feelings towards, to the music I play. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then, I share some of my favorite links of the great musicians performing 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and you know, to try to inspire some fans to listen. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Yeah. Very good, thank you. Alright. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You've got microphones over there, so if you have questions, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 please go to a microphone and we'll .... up and knock you down with Lang Lang. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q1 from the audience] Hi [name ?] [Inaudible] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm a father: I've got a 5-year old and a 2-year old (38:41) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and for better or worse, my kids are into popular music. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon (?)] Good for you] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q1] Yes. And I'm wondering - [br][laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So making them sit down and listen to better music, to classical music, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is a little help[br][Lang Lang] Than you very much [laughs] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q1] It is a little heavy-handed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I was wondering, what have you found that really works with kids, to get them engaged 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and interested in new kinds of music, in particular, classical music. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah. There are a few compositors which I felt quite - who could have a real good connection to kids. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 One is Tchaikovsky - piece like Nutcracker or Swan's Lake (?) and - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and Mozart - Mozart is probably the best composer to, I mean really (?) inspire the kds. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And Chopin, also, I would say: very melodic. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Ah, but you wouldn't start with [inaudible] Wagner's Ring cycle, right? [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That's a little hard, yeah. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, good luck! May there is some new - maybe Lady Gaga comes out there. [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q2] Quick question, along those lines. I have a 4- and a 6-year old 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and they like[br][Lang Lang] [inaudible: very tiring?] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - they start and stop things, especially my 6-year old daughter. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 She's interested now in piano. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 How do I get that going, keep that going, you know, get her - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because I imagine little doggy challenges along the way. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] First, get a good teacher. That's very important. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And - very important, if you have time, please take her to kids' events, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you know, kids' concerts. I'm told (?) Carnegie does a lot of these things 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and Lincoln Center or - take her to some of the concerts that other kids perform. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Because for me, it was the same. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The reason I started linking performance when I was very young is because all my friends were musicians 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and they were actually playing something, and we can actually play together, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 like two pianos, or three pianos, or violin, playing a trio, a little trio. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And music is like a language: we need a communication, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 we need to use our language, you know: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 if you learn a new language, you could only use it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You're not interested and you forget about it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, you know, this communication is very important. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] I know there is at least one more question, it's just - yeah 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q3] [inaudible][br][Spurgeon] I'll repeat it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q3] [inaudible] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Yes, so the question was, did you - what are your plans for your next recordings. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And are you - will you - Bach, specifically. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah. I mean, I love Bach. When I was a kid, I played Bach's work every week (?) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and I tried to memorize a work by Bach every week to train my brain, you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 By the way, after that, you can remember every cell phone number you own (?) [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And really, Bach is - really, now - really challenging, but incredible. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Certainly, I would love to record the "Goldberg Variations", 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 certainly I would do more classic repertoire records, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but it needs to be balanced. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So this year and last year I did all of the romantics, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and then next year will be contemporary, and then you know - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so, I'm trying to balance the recordings. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Thanks for bringing the Goldberg, by the way. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] You, Sir. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q4] So, there is a lot of talk about - sorry, I'm very tall - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 there is a lot of talk about bringing classic music to children and I am in some sense a product of that. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My father went way out of his way to play clasic music, he reallly enoyed it - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and I hated it, as a kid. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I'm here, so that's obviously no longer the case. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But I am - I studied, or at least I was taught classical guitar.[br][Lang Lang] Oh? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q4] And that lapsed for several years while I went to [inaudible]. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now I guess a little absence was worthwhile. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But what advice would you give towards adults who have a musical sensibility, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 who have musical appreciation and - I guess in my cast - have or in general cases, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 do not have some degree of musical training. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Because children are taught at a very early age to begin to play classical music, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 or begin music in general. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Is there any sen- is there any fear that I should have for instance lack of dexterity, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [inaudible] plasticity of mind. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What advice would you give to us adults who want to begin to hopefully - with a lag - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 reach the kind of level you're operating on? [laugher] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Well you - you're getting deep with this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Well ah - adult, yeah. I mean there's a app called Magic Piano, which I co-produced. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I mean, if you feel it difficult to play the real piano, try that. [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It'll be easier to play because somehow, it plays by itself. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Ah, and - yeah, you can certainly buy a piano, which has a kind of a high tech disk 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and then you just push a - whoever's Chopin, whoever's Tchaikovsky, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 whoever's Beethoven 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and somehow - and then, you know, you can, maybe start to see the positions on the piano 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and try to follow it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But again: I really - I'm really welcoming adults actually learning an instrument. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And especially - you had a musical training before, right? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So for you, it would be very easy, actually, to pick it up again, you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the great work you did before (45:02) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and maybe now learn do it (?) you will feel more comfortable, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 maybe you will like it more than when you were a kid. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And also, you know, classical guitar is pretty cool, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and I'm sure, as, you know, while you're playing, you'll get some new dates or something. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [laughter] I mean, that's very important, you know, I know some of my friends who studied 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - adults - who study piano. I say: "Why are you doing it?" "Oh, I try to impress the girls." [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, I mean, I know lots of those people. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, it is a good encouragement, right, so - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] The choice of instrument can be important for that too. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You'll get more dates with a guitar, probably, than with an accordion. [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Just a thought. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Guitar is very popular these days, you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 it's probably one of the instruments I can think of, more popular than piano, it's probably guitar. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I would like to learn it, actually - guitar - if - maybe I should learn some classical guitar skills from you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q4] I'd love to give you a lesson.[br][laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] I got new lessons [inaudible].[br][Q4] [inaudible] a teacher. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q4 and Lang Lang] Thank you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] Yes, Sir. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q5] I wanted to ask, when you memorize a piece, is it only technical 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 or do you also memorize, like, how you feel, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is it like, before you start playing, do you have to get into the emotion of that piece, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 or is it just the music getting you there, when you hear it? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah - that's, that's - yeah. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 First, sometimes I hear a great music in my ear, whether - any type of music: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm just trying to get memorized the melodies first. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I want to somehow play on the pianos. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But some work, I know it for many years 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and it doesn't mean that you start to love those - repertoire right away. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Some pieces take a few years to digest and then you are like "Wow! I should do it!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And so, first comes to - the general stuff, you know, you read a score after you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you read it like in this piece you want to learn. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So you learn it from the score and you play, simply, by their - just play by your right hand 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 or putting it together like this. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And after that, you are trying to - analyzing the piece 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and using everything you learned from the past, you know, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and your head will be like a multimedia screen, trying to take a lot of elements 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and trying to put those things inside of the music. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Because the most important thing is not the note, it's this thing behind the note, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the meaning behind the note. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So, the more meaning - meanings you're getting, is better for the first work session. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then later, you're just trying to balance the right ones. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And you will know the right ones when you're ready. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In the beginning, you don't really know, so you try lots of things, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and then later you will know, wow, this one will not work, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because this is maybe defeating the style of - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and then later, after you really understand the dynamics of the score, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you start to recreate things. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then, you play for several of your teachers, or your colleagues 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and you get more ideas. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then, you start looking into this work again, and then you start performance. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And when you perform, every day, every time, you should try different things. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And after a year, I think you can - you're ready for recording. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon laughs][br][Q5] Thank you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Lots of alternatives (?) (48:59) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q6] My name is ...... I work in Google. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I actually have the opposite problem from Samir with me, actually 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 2 and half year old daughter, she actually loves classical music 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Yeah! Here we go! [claps] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q6] She even goes to sleep while hearing Andrea Boccelli and you playing ..... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 which is very nice. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I have a different question: I want to learn playing the piano myself, as well. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Wonderful![br][Q6] Mmm? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Wonderful, that's a great idea. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q6] I'm pretty old, you know, 35. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My question is actually in 2 parts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 First of all, I heard about something called the Suzuki method[br][Lang Lang] [Inaudible] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q6] Yeah, but I heard conflicting opinions about it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So I wonder what's your take on it? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And the second part: is it if - is it a - how do you say it - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is it a real ambition to learn to play the piano at such a late age? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I mean, to do even something minimal? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] It's never too late. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Suzuki method: actually I didn't know this method when I was practicing - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 then later I know the method, but I've been brought up by just playing scales. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So I didn't really have any method, you know, try this method or not - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I think that's - maybe it's important for some people, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but it's not necessary to be focused on one method, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because in the end of the day, there are so many ways of playing piano 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and you don't want to start (?) with one thing, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you know, in the very beginning and you just stop (?) with it. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q6] Yeah, yeah, but I refer .... Suzuki method, both the father and the child are learning together. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I thought that- 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] My father also did that, but it was a different kind of method. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Yeah he's - he's playing like the strict method. [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But you know, I'm sure it will work for many people. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I just wasn't brought up by this method. And I - yeah - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I'm always - you know, this is a very challenging way to know: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 what is the real right, you know, beginning method for kids to learn the piano? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We are still trying to figure that out. So once I know more about it, I'll let you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But seriously, you can always learn piano, no matter how old you are. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I have a doctor friend, you know. He's a - a - he's a wonderful doctor and lives in Germany. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And he's now, I think, 50 years old. Good guy: 50. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He starts, because he always loved the piano, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but he never had money to learn when he was very young, he was focused onto medicine, you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Then somehow his - after he became a very successful doctor - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 he wanted to - to, you know - to establish his childhood dream, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 which is to play beautiful sounds. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And so he started to learn piano when he turned 42. Seriously, this is a - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and he finds a teacher who is very young, like early 20's, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but a very good guy, you know, very solid pianist. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So he starts learning from him. And you kno what? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He just made - this 50-year old doctor just made his finally archive (? Archiv?) recording 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 of ten of his favorite pieces, including the Schumann "Träumerei", you know, "Dreaming", 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 including the Schubert Impromptus, including a Chopin's Waltz, including Liszt's "Consolation". 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So this guy's like only learned a few years, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but he has his golden top ten. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So he can open a radio show, you know, ....... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And he plays very beautiful, I mean the technique maybe is not really there, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but he's certainly put his emotions there, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 which is more important, somehow, you know. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And so I'm sure you can do the same and I'm sure you'll be marching on with that (?) [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [someone says something inaudible] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] One more question: you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Q7] Given the level of evocativeness that you achieve, I have to wonder: 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 do you have some sort of meditative practice other than at the piano? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What are your favorite ways to tap into, say, greater levels of humanity? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Hem. [inaudible] I mean, I - I mean the first really important thing is taking naps. [laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Talking about meditation, I mean that's a - 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that's the first thing to come to my mind, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 because I'm such a night person, I don't sleep well in the night, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I just get over in my mind some strange ideas. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So during the day, I like to take, like one-hour nap. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then somehow, that calms me down and I - I feel great. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And also, I - I think the best way to - you know - for ourself to get ready mentally 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is reading books. Read as much as you can. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And also, after reading, take a little walk in a park or go to museums. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This, for me, is the best way of learning new knowledge and relaxing 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and this makes me a much better musician and human being . Yeah. Thank you. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Spurgeon] And thanks to everyone here at Google today, and thanks to Lang Lang. Great. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Lang Lang] Thanks![br][Applause]