{"id":4496,"date":"2010-04-23T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:21:31","slug":"lang-lang-thinks-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/23\/lang-lang-thinks-different\/","title":{"rendered":"lang lang thinks different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video that&#8217;s been going around the blogosphere lately &#8211; it&#8217;s piano rockstar Lang Lang playing Flight of the Bumblebee as an encore after an appearance with the San Francisco Symphony.\u00a0 The catch? He&#8217;s doing it on an iPad app, AND with the Steinway (at least towards the end).\u00a0 Pretty cool, but I think there are still a few kinks to work out with the touch screen for piano playing purposes. (via Sarah @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/http%3A%2F%2Finsidetheclassics.myminnesotaorchestra.org%2Ffeed%2F?hl=en\">Inside the Classics<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HvplGbCBaLA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video that&#8217;s been going around the blogosphere lately &#8211; it&#8217;s piano rockstar Lang Lang playing Flight of the Bumblebee as an encore after an appearance with the San Francisco Symphony.\u00a0 The catch? He&#8217;s doing it on an iPad app, AND with the Steinway (at least towards the end).\u00a0 Pretty cool, but I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1027,135,2],"tags":[631,1625,3658,64],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piano-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-lang-lang","tag-san-francisco-symphony","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2568,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/22\/adding-yuja-to-the-wish-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":4496,"position":0},"title":"adding yuja to the wish list","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"[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.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope that we can get her for an OSO series in an upcoming season.\u00c2\u00a0 I'd heard rumors that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chamber music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"yuja-wang-by-felix-broede-for-dg-63","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yuja-wang-by-felix-broede-for-dg-63-200x269.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1215,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/03\/lang-lang-is-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":4496,"position":1},"title":"lang lang is&#8230; good!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo: \u00c2\u00a9 Felix Broede \/ Deutsche Grammophone Well, for the orchestra, the anticipation came to an end around 11:00 a.m. this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 The unassuming, young, Armani-clad Asian pianist strode onto the stage, was introduced to the orchestra to polite applause, and then proceeded to mesmerize much of the orchestra with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lang-lang3_felix-broede_sm.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1170,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/24\/lang-lang-concert-sold-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":4496,"position":2},"title":"lang lang concert sold out","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If you were hoping to catch the piano phenom known as Lang Lang, you're out of luck: his special concert with the Oregon Symphony on October 3rd is sold out.\u00c2\u00a0 However, if you've got some extra money burning a hole in your pocket, there is a special premium ticket auction\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;soloists &amp; recitals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"soloists &amp; recitals","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/soloists-recitals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/lang-lang1-400x587.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1213,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/03\/lang-lang-minimalism-and-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":4496,"position":3},"title":"lang lang, minimalism, and me","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Piano phenom Lang Lang appears with the OSO tonight - and we hear him live for the first time at our dress rehearsal this morning - I'll have some first impressions this afternoon. 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