Here’s a video that’s been going around the blogosphere lately – it’s piano rockstar Lang Lang playing Flight of the Bumblebee as an encore after an appearance with the San Francisco Symphony. The catch? He’s doing it on an iPad app, AND with the Steinway (at least towards the end). Pretty cool, but I think
Michael Tilson Thomas/Photo: G. Schirmer If you missed the San Francisco Symphony’s wonderful exploration of four major works from the classical music repertoire (explicated and conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas) – then you’re in luck. If you’re a digi-phile such as myself, you can click over to the iTunes Store and download each of the
[click photo to enlarge] After reading this extraordinary review of the new pianist phenom Yuja Wang with the San Francisco Symphony, I now am fairly desperate to see her in performance. I hope that we can get her for an OSO series in an upcoming season. I’d heard rumors that she was like Lang Lang