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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Talks/Authors/Brewmasters/Comedians/Green/Health/Innovators/Musicians/Artists/Filmmakers at Google)\N[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Artists at Google\NLang Lang The Chopin Album - Interview moderated by Jeff Spurgeon of WOXR\NOctober 15th, 2012 \N[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Good morning. Thanks for being here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm very happy to be here for the second time, but the first time, I wasn't on the stage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just - I was just visiting the office - a very cool office, I say.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yes, I prepared some morning songs for you to wake up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, a few Chopin pieces. We'll start with one of them, a very beautiful Nocturne
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, one or two Etudes, and then a Chopin waltz.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So hopefully, we will get really waked after 20 minutes of performance. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat major, opus 55 #2 (?)]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(6:44) [Etude - which?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(8:11) [Etude ?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(13:01) [Chopin: Waltz op 64 #1(?])
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(16:42) [Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Jeff Spurgeon] Hello. I'm Jeff Spurgeon from WOXR, New York's classical station .......
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may not know, because nobody told you: this is Lang Lang.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's a classical pianist, reasonably well-known all over the globe (17:12)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's quite a wonderful thing to hear you play.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me ask you: what was your warm up for this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just this morning: did you warm up this morning?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] I - I'm sorry, I didn't warm up:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I woke up around 10:20 [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean I was running like crazy - speed - to get here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm really grateful that I - I mean - you are here today, ...... for me. Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Jeff Spurgeon] It's really wonderful\N[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Jeff Spurgeon] It's extraordinary to have all that music just in your head, just at your command,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's what you do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Well, as Rubinstein said, you know, one of the greatest pianists,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he's had, he has like 60 piano concertos in his head.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And basically doing - in his 70's or 80's he said:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Just call me up, wake me up in the middle of the night, like, say, 4 am -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can play whatever piece you want - in concert level" Well, I mean that's -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] I believe it but so can you - but so can you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's had - he had a little more practice than you so far,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you'll be there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In China, Lang Lang is credited with influencing some 40 million kids
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take up classical piano.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I know that 40 million is not maybe a huge number at Google,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but still [audience laughs] it's a reasonably large number of people - [Lang Lang laughs]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to persuade to take up - and when you think about all the pianos that have to be made,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the music that has to be printed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the lessons that have to be paid for,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say that you are, without question, classical music's greatest job creator.[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think there's anybody who's going to do more than that than you are.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lang Lang's new album on the Sony label is "The Chopin Album".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It contains at its heart the Opus 25 set of a dozen études, studies for piano,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you have been studying since I think you were what?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight it was when you started to play those things?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah, I started to play the Chopin études when I was 8, and -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Took them on the road when you were 12 or 13?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah, I played the complete études when I was 13, right,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was very tiring to play those pieces [laughter].
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it drives me nuts and it drives my neighbors nuts [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really feel bad about it, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as you know, recently I started practicing in my appartment here,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started practicing the Chopin études, you know [imitates a few notes]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then my neighbor knocked at my door: "Can - could you stop?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Really? You mean really?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah. I mean, no no.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean there's one neighbor who knows who I am,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so she's always like, "Oh, that's really wonderful!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, there's another neighbor, I think, living downstairs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I always like to practice after 11, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find inspiration [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And - and this lady, I think she hates me all the time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So anyway, that's -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] So you've been playing these since you were 8, playing them in public since you were 13.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why record them now? Why not a little earlier?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not wait a couple more years? Maybe the wine will mellow a little more in the bottle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why decide to do these now?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] I mean, since I'm 30, you know, I like to -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do some more repertoire, which I played a lot when I was a kid,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also, you know, putting on new pieces.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually thought to do the 24 études, the complete cycle,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I actually - I thought maybe I should do something, not just technical pieces,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also very artistic pieces combined for the Chopin first solo for me to record.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also to hear - I was also actually watching the video that I did when I was 13,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing the complete études, and I found (?) a few wrong notes, and I [makes dismayed sound]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now, playing a few of those pieces like "The Winter Wind", "Ocean" études,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now I feel slightly easier - slightly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that seems like a good sign, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,17 years of practice and my technique is going somewhere [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And - but more importantly, is the musical sense that -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are so many new things I'm trying to reinterpret in this album,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I try to find different colors, like you have here, different levels of colors
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the combination of the ...... of Chopin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, the Romantic period of répertoire,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and especially last year, I did Liszt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I thought this was a nice moment to do Chopin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So next year will be very different. So -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spuregeon] What's next year?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Next year, I will do Prokofiev and Bartók.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Well! OK So it's very very different, totally different, truly...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's some unusual pieces on this album.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Andante Spianato (?) in Grande Polonaise, a big favorite of yours,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,done with orchestra sometimes, but there is the solo version.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've always liked this piece? (22:31)