Master, demanding he practice 8 hours a day. Once even urging his young son to commit suicide. Its kind of a hard thing to even think about it. Its something that. I think the love become too extreme. A child prodigy, his mother stayed home to support the family while lang lang pursued his dreams. I would say thats the most difficult thing for me it was, you know, growing up without my mom next to me. Now lang lang is trying to bring classical notes into the lives of children through his International Music foundation. We believe music can make people happier, to make the kids more creative. One of his earliest inspirations. The cartoon musicians tom and jerry. So its really cool when you see, you know, tom try to catch him like. [plays discordant piano sounds]. I sat down with lang lang at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music in new york city. Youve just come from playing at the kennedy center. You played for a worldwide audience with pharrell at the grammys. I thought i was gonna s
His father was a tough task master, demanding he practice 8 hours a day. Once even urging his young son to commit suicide. Its kind of a hard thing to even think about it. Its something that. I think the love become too extreme. A child prodigy, his mother stayed home to support the family while lang lang pursued his dreams. I would say thats the most difficult thing for me it was, you know, growing up without my mom next to me. Now lang lang is trying to bring classical notes into the lives of children through his International Music foundation. We believe music can make people happier, to make the kids more creative. One of his earliest inspirations. The cartoon musicians tom and jerry. So its really cool when you see, you know, tom try to catch him like. [plays discordant piano sounds]. I sat down with lang lang at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music in new york city. Youve just come from playing at the kennedy center. You played for a worldwide audience with pharrell at the gram
Once even urging his young son to commit suicide. Its kind of a hard thing to even think about it. Its something that. I think the love become too extreme. A child prodigy, his mother stayed home to support the family while lang lang pursued his dreams. I would say thats the most difficult thing for me it was, you know, growing up without my mom next to me. Now lang lang is trying to bring classical notes into the lives of children through his International Music foundation. We believe music can make people happier, to make the kids more creative. One of his earliest inspirations. The cartoon musicians tom and jerry. So its really cool when you see, you know, tom try to catch him like. [plays discordant piano sounds]. I sat down with lang lang at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music in new york city. Youve just come from playing at the kennedy center. You played for a worldwide audience with pharrell at the grammys. I thought i was gonna say, oh, this is a busy time for you. But, act
His father was a tough task master, demanding he practice 8 hours a day. Concerts, and creative projects. And and i think really music give me an energy to drive myself to always try to get to another level. But, you know, you have had so much success it would be easy to say, i could cut my concert schedule in half. I mean, compared to a few years ago its actually reduced. I used to play, like, 160, and now i play 125. Yeah. Something like that. I cut the summer time off. And you do think about balance. I mean, i think that that is something that you have written, that you had to learn. Because, i guess, you had spent so much of your life, from even your early childhood, really focused on driving to be number one, as youve said. I mean, of course, now the to think about number one is a silly thing. But when i was a kid i thought that there is kind of a number one target. When i was a kid, i always been, practice also study at school. So, its, like, constantly working to be focused, and
Collaborate with great musicians. Lang lang grew up in an Industrial City in northern china. His father was a tough task master, demanding he practice 8 hours a day. Once even urging his young son to commit suicide. Its kind of a hard thing to even think about it. Its something that. I think the love become too extreme. A child prodigy, his mother stayed home to support the family while lang lang pursued his dreams. I would say thats the most difficult thing for me it was, you know, growing up without my mom next to me. Now lang lang is trying to bring classical notes into the lives of children through his International Music foundation. We believe music can make people happier, to make the kids more creative. One of his earliest inspirations. The cartoon musicians tom and jerry. So its really cool when you see, you know, tom try to catch him like. [plays discordant piano sounds]. I sat down with lang lang at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music in new york city. Youve just come from