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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 in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3]
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 and 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)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Not really. I mean, when I was a [laughter] - when I was a kid, I hated it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I mean, once - no matter how great the work of art,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are so many pianists playing the same piece, not in a very good level (?)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you will feel kind of bored, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so that exactly happens when I was a kid,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, I heard so many interpretations of this piece I got totally all around (?)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I didn't like it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I came to America and I studied at Curtis' in Philadelphia
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Do you know the Philly cheese steak? It's pretty good, yeah -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, so, in Philadelphia, a boy from Kiev, he's - he also studied with the same teacher as me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gary Graffman\N[Spurgeon] Gary Graffman
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] and he played it in a student recital. I was shocked by his playing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm like "Wow! This piece is spectacular!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I started loving this piece and - thanks to him, of course -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and - so sometimes, you know, one amazing performance
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really changes your entire view of a work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what happens in the Spianato and .....
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Now it turns - you played actually a wonderful cross-section of the album
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a few minutes ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a piece on this album, it's the last selection called "Tristesse"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it features a singer named Oh Land, who is from - \N[Spurgeon and Lang Lang] Sweden
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] She lives in Williamsburg,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because most people do.\N[Lang Lang] Right. [Laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah, Brooklyn is getting .....
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] That's - it's beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you tell me the story of this, because it's from a film?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Right, Trist - we did a film during the Chopin year,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "The Flying Machine", so it basically adapts a novel, kind of about Poland today,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as compared to the Chopin's days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So actually, I was actor in this movie and my partner was Heather Graham [inaudible]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Yeah, Heather Graham - many faces lit up when you said those words. [Laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Anyway. But that one was pretty classic. ........
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so that - that film actually was quite inspiring,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there was Chopin's music and takes the journey of a piano
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually, the piano became a flying machine, sort of,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we take the kids all over the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, the theme song, we actually thought the Tristesse (?), which is the Opus 10 #3 étude
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is such a beautiful melody, which I played here, second to the last (?),
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so we transcribed that to the theme song,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we got this beautiful voice of - her name is pretty funny: Oh Land -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah, so, in the beginning I didn't know she's a - I mean is a he or she -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when I heard the voice, I most certainly knew she's a she
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she did a wonderful job.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Yeah. It's a sweet - it's a sweet song
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Chopin - lots of people - lots of popular songs have been written on Chopin themes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this is another and it is just great\N[Lang Lang] Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Your foundation. Let's talk about that because that's such a big deal:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Lang Lang International Music Foundation - it's going great guns (?)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you had some kids I think, from part of that program on the Tonight Show?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah: two weeks ago I was on Jay Leno -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Yeah: four minutes of classical music on network television.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was extraordinary. Four whole minutes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] It was amazing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, these days, it's hard to get classical music on \N[Spurgeon] Exactly right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] anyway, but I mean, Jay is a good friend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I mean, his name is Jay Jay now, after [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] - the Lang Lang.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Oh my god, yes, 400 cars (?) -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyway, let's not talk about that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we actually had a very fortunate selection of wonderful talents from the Los Angeles area
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they - there were - I mean some of the kids I know them before,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they perform with me, my condition-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Do you mean all kids......
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10 of them, so Lang Lang played - you played "La Campanella" and the E-flat Waltz
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you heard part of here, and then ten kids, five other Steinways around in the room
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are all doing [inaudible]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah, Turkish March [sings it]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[sings on the Turkish March] And that was so beautiful
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I really enjoyed working with them, and the way they played, it was magnificent.\N[Spurgeon] [Inaudible]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] And - I mean, I thought I really want, watching, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our next generation perform, it's a special moment and for me it's very inspiring
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what our foundation is wanting to do, you know, to work with the next generation of artists
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to - helping them - to support them to achieve their dreams,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like many of the mentors helped me when I was very young.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] So, it's about helping the next generation - not necessarily about classical music?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean it is classical-focused I think about it (?).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yes, it will be focused on classical and piano,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the same time, we will also - to do some .....(?) with the Grammy people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and VHI people, so we're trying to - trying to break the boundaries
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through these wonderful projects
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I created this "101 pianists" project. So -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] You'll have a hundred pianists with you on stage? That's the idea?\N[Lang Lang] Yes - yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,50 pianos, people play 4-hands, the re... is that -\N[Spurgeon] It's also a great job creator too,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just for the movers.[Laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] I mean, yeah, the movers were quite happy about this, you know, and this, and -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the reason we wanted this is, as a pianist, we always practice by ourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's sometimes very lonely, you know, you are in a dark room, much tougher than this one [laughter].
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I practice hours, hours, it's - it's hard training and for a kid, it's important to have a partner,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like two kids on one piano, so they can talk a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's like doing your homework, you know, that type of thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, the teachers can teach them, you know, how to play together
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the end, we all get together to play, and enjoy the music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Music making\N[Lang Lang] Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] October 30th at Carnegie Hall, the Lang Lang International Music Foundation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is having a big benefit concert, an evening with Joshua Bell and Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the formerly mentioned Oh Land -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] And Alec Baldwin\N[Spurgeon] And Alec Baldwin will be the host
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and [inaudible]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what's going to happen that night?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a big bunch of music making, I guess'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Err yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] I mean, do you collaborate, are you doing something with Dee Dee Bridgewater?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yes, so - so here I start, playing some Chopin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then - with Josh - we play the Grieg Violin and Piano Sonata -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Is he Jay Jay also to you?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Err - Josh Josh. [laughter]\N[Spurgeon] Just checking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] And then [giggles] in the second half, we start with 4 hands, 6 hands, 8 hands - and 10 hands.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] [Laughs] On one piano?\N[Lang Lang] No.\N[Spurgeon] OK.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just checking. Just checking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yes, 10 hands on one piano that's -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Well, you'd know each other very well by the end of the piece, you'd be very familiar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Just like the subway, you know\N[Spurgeon] That's right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] You are a master, at the age of 30, you are a master, recognized around the globe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But are you still a student and do you see any of your old teachers?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gary Graffman was your teacher at Curtis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you've done a little bit of work with Daniel Barenboim.\N[Lang Lang] Absolutely.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] When you see them, do you play for them and ask them for their thoughts?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it a lesson they give you - no - how does it work at this level
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you are, in your stage of artistry - with these elder mentors, I guess you'd call them?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah. I mean, my teachers were, and still are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gary Graffman, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniel Barenboim
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they helped me tremendously, not just technically but -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Well, I was going to say, they're not going to say:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You missed the E flat in the 40th bar." or - that's not what they do. So, what are they -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Well, sometimes they do that too. [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they - because the great musicians like those names, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are much more focused on the understanding
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also on the traditional interpretations.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they will show you how the traditional sound.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we will start discussing about new possibilities -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we recreate those moments that the traditional lights (?).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, you know, they will help me to find out my ways, you know:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will start to explore some of my ideas on those passages, how I'm going to do it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And obviously, we know that music - there are some, I mean, there are certain styles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are not certain rules, you know, so basically, there are lots of alternatives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the important thing is how to organize the alternatives,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how to - balancing them, having a right pulse (?).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the challenge, because you can do lot of interpretations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if they are unbalanced, if what you start, in the end, doesn't make sense,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then all those feelings are wasted, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so, first you free [inaudible], and then you need to limit your interpretations into certain ways.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, in the concert, you start everything new again, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,try to get inspired from the actual stage and to recreate new feelings, a new emotion,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but aware of that tradition lines, which will hold every interpretation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the right speed and right pulse.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Right. Well, you're part of that tradition.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're recreating it and making it at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should say too that there is time for questions from all of you here -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit, to just - hold: think of your question -\N[Lang Lang] Hold the line! Hold the line!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Yeah, exactly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've wondered about the transition from Chinese culture to Western culture for you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in music as well, because you grew up playing this music for a very long time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, Chinese classical music is - is a little bit strange,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe a little bit difficult to listen to, because I haven't had as much experience with it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've been steeped in both traditions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you hear them the same way, or do you switch, sort of from one to another?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you put them together too, because you've done lots of piano transcriptions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of traditional Chinese pieces that weren't thought of on a piano. (33:52)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] It's just like this, you know, when you hear American music,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you hear a German music, when you hear a - African music, it's different, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the same time, it's all called music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like music, I mean, in that we try to express similar subjects, similar feelings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but use a different wording and a different language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a bit like in the music world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, obviously, you have to switch fast with the haste (?) of music making.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the end of the day, following that (?) I grew up both in the Chinese traditional music
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in Western classical,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my father plays erhu, which is a Chinese violin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah - I mean recently, I found a different interesting thing of the difference between fork and chopsticks
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the difference between erhu and violin -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see the similarity out there?\N[Spurgeon] Interesting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Well, erhu has two strings, and violins have four.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] [laughss] and chopsticks: two and a fork, usually four tines.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Right, here we go. So that's the difference.
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,,[Spurgeon] Very good, that's a very good answer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you - do you think it's - I mean, one of the things with your foundation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're helping people to explore classical msic:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you think you can make people like classical music?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was - I feel like, sometimes it's a sales job.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody says: "Oh my God, you've got to hear rock n' roll, you won't believe what that stuff is"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody says that, but about classical music, some of those people say:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, well, if you haven't heard it, you should maybe listen to a little bit of it."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you feel like having, I mean, to "sell it"?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea of it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] I mean - my experience of it (?) is pretty funny.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are two - there are two experiences of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first was in America - and then I'll talk about China alright? -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, first in America, I came when I was 15, and then, I was in a regular high school in Philadelphia.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those "dudes" and "yammies" (?) 36:09
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, they asked me: "What do you do here, in this country?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I: "Oh, I'm studying classical music." alright (?): "Classical music? what is that?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter] "Oooh, I know, I know - I'll tell you: are you playing the dudes that already passed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like 500 years ago?" [laughter]"You do his work?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say "Yes, kind of like that but not [inaudible]"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say: "Just think about Shakespeare, right? He died for many years, but still his work is classic, right?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there, I know we have a serious problem, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then a few years later, I went back to China for - for concerts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then - ............ (36:55)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's one guy who came and he's like:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I hear so you're recording in the same label as Mozart." [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you see, it's a total ........
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but somehow it's quite funny, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So - so in a way, that - you know - that gives us the room to sort of have some work to do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't think we need to "sell" this, you know, this art,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because classical music is so wonderful - it's just -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people sometimes don't know it, that's it: we just need to, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using social media and networks and platforms too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Can you give an example of social media?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Just kidding, just kidding: it's Google Talk - it's Google
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah. Yeah, I mean, remember, a few years ago,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,YouTube had a, like a YouTube Symphony Orchestra competition
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was a big phenomenon on internet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I had the great privilege of being their ambassador for - for the proect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And - so in the future, I mean, today, even like when I tweet or I'm facebooking,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start to share some of the musical thoughts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- not just talking about food and movies \N[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to share a little bit of feelings towards, to the music I play.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, I share some of my favorite links of the great musicians performing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know, to try to inspire some fans to listen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Yeah. Very good, thank you. Alright.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got microphones over there, so if you have questions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please go to a microphone and we'll .... up and knock you down with Lang Lang.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q1 from the audience] Hi [name ?] [Inaudible]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a father: I've got a 5-year old and a 2-year old (38:41)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for better or worse, my kids are into popular music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon (?)] Good for you]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q1] Yes. And I'm wondering - \N[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So making them sit down and listen to better music, to classical music,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a little help\N[Lang Lang] Than you very much [laughs]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q1] It is a little heavy-handed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was wondering, what have you found that really works with kids, to get them engaged
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and interested in new kinds of music, in particular, classical music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah. There are a few compositors which I felt quite - who could have a real good connection to kids.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is Tchaikovsky - piece like Nutcracker or Swan's Lake (?) and -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Mozart - Mozart is probably the best composer to, I mean really (?) inspire the kds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Chopin, also, I would say: very melodic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah, but you wouldn't start with [inaudible] Wagner's Ring cycle, right? [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a little hard, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, good luck! May there is some new - maybe Lady Gaga comes out there. [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q2] Quick question, along those lines. I have a 4- and a 6-year old
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they like\N[Lang Lang] [inaudible: very tiring?]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- they start and stop things, especially my 6-year old daughter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's interested now in piano.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I get that going, keep that going, you know, get her -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I imagine little doggy challenges along the way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] First, get a good teacher. That's very important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And - very important, if you have time, please take her to kids' events,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, kids' concerts. I'm told (?) Carnegie does a lot of these things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Lincoln Center or - take her to some of the concerts that other kids perform.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because for me, it was the same.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason I started linking performance when I was very young is because all my friends were musicians
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were actually playing something, and we can actually play together,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like two pianos, or three pianos, or violin, playing a trio, a little trio.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And music is like a language: we need a communication,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to use our language, you know:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you learn a new language, you could only use it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not interested and you forget about it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you know, this communication is very important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] I know there is at least one more question, it's just - yeah
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q3] [inaudible]\N[Spurgeon] I'll repeat it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q3] [inaudible]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Yes, so the question was, did you - what are your plans for your next recordings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And are you - will you - Bach, specifically.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah. I mean, I love Bach. When I was a kid, I played Bach's work every week (?)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I tried to memorize a work by Bach every week to train my brain, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the way, after that, you can remember every cell phone number you own (?) [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And really, Bach is - really, now - really challenging, but incredible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly, I would love to record the "Goldberg Variations",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly I would do more classic repertoire records,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it needs to be balanced.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this year and last year I did all of the romantics,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then next year will be contemporary, and then you know -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, I'm trying to balance the recordings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks for bringing the Goldberg, by the way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] You, Sir.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q4] So, there is a lot of talk about - sorry, I'm very tall -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a lot of talk about bringing classic music to children and I am in some sense a product of that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father went way out of his way to play clasic music, he reallly enoyed it -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I hated it, as a kid.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm here, so that's obviously no longer the case.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I am - I studied, or at least I was taught classical guitar.\N[Lang Lang] Oh?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q4] And that lapsed for several years while I went to [inaudible].
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I guess a little absence was worthwhile.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what advice would you give towards adults who have a musical sensibility,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have musical appreciation and - I guess in my cast - have or in general cases,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not have some degree of musical training.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because children are taught at a very early age to begin to play classical music,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or begin music in general.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there any sen- is there any fear that I should have for instance lack of dexterity,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[inaudible] plasticity of mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What advice would you give to us adults who want to begin to hopefully - with a lag -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reach the kind of level you're operating on? [laugher]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Well you - you're getting deep with this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well ah - adult, yeah. I mean there's a app called Magic Piano, which I co-produced.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, if you feel it difficult to play the real piano, try that. [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It'll be easier to play because somehow, it plays by itself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah, and - yeah, you can certainly buy a piano, which has a kind of a high tech disk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you just push a - whoever's Chopin, whoever's Tchaikovsky,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whoever's Beethoven
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somehow - and then, you know, you can, maybe start to see the positions on the piano
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and try to follow it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But again: I really - I'm really welcoming adults actually learning an instrument.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And especially - you had a musical training before, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for you, it would be very easy, actually, to pick it up again, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the great work you did before (45:02)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe now learn do it (?) you will feel more comfortable,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe you will like it more than when you were a kid.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also, you know, classical guitar is pretty cool,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm sure, as, you know, while you're playing, you'll get some new dates or something.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughter] I mean, that's very important, you know, I know some of my friends who studied
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- adults - who study piano. I say: "Why are you doing it?" "Oh, I try to impress the girls." [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I mean, I know lots of those people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it is a good encouragement, right, so -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] The choice of instrument can be important for that too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll get more dates with a guitar, probably, than with an accordion. [laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a thought.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Guitar is very popular these days, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's probably one of the instruments I can think of, more popular than piano, it's probably guitar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to learn it, actually - guitar - if - maybe I should learn some classical guitar skills from you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q4] I'd love to give you a lesson.\N[laughter]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] I got new lessons [inaudible].\N[Q4] [inaudible] a teacher.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q4 and Lang Lang] Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon] Yes, Sir.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Q5] I wanted to ask, when you memorize a piece, is it only technical
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or do you also memorize, like, how you feel,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it like, before you start playing, do you have to get into the emotion of that piece,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or is it just the music getting you there, when you hear it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Yeah - that's, that's - yeah.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, sometimes I hear a great music in my ear, whether - any type of music:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just trying to get memorized the melodies first.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to somehow play on the pianos.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But some work, I know it for many years
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it doesn't mean that you start to love those - repertoire right away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some pieces take a few years to digest and then you are like "Wow! I should do it!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, first comes to - the general stuff, you know, you read a score after you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you read it like in this piece you want to learn.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you learn it from the score and you play, simply, by their - just play by your right hand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or putting it together like this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after that, you are trying to - analyzing the piece
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and using everything you learned from the past, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your head will be like a multimedia screen, trying to take a lot of elements
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to put those things inside of the music.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the most important thing is not the note, it's this thing behind the note,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the meaning behind the note.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the more meaning - meanings you're getting, is better for the first work session.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then later, you're just trying to balance the right ones.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you will know the right ones when you're ready.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the beginning, you don't really know, so you try lots of things,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then later you will know, wow, this one will not work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is maybe defeating the style of -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then later, after you really understand the dynamics of the score,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you start to recreate things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, you play for several of your teachers, or your colleagues
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you get more ideas.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, you start looking into this work again, and then you start performance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you perform, every day, every time, you should try different things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after a year, I think you can - you're ready for recording.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spurgeon laughs]\N[Q5] Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lang Lang] Lots of alternatives (?) (48:59)