"Edition remarked that ""Lang Lang has conquered the classical world with dazzling technique and charisma."" It is often noted that Lang successfully straddles two worlds—classical prodigy and rock-like ""superstar"", a phenomenon summed up by ""The Times"" journalist Emma Pomfret, who wrote, ""I can think of no other classical artist who has achieved Lang Lang's broad appeal without dumbing down."" Lang's performance style was controversial when he stormed into the classical music scene in 1999. At that time, pianist Earl Wild called him ""the J. Lo of the piano."" Others have described him as immature, but admitted that his ability to"
"Lang Lang Lang Lang (; born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese concert pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Canada, in addition to his native China. Lang Lang was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China on 14 June 1982. His father Lang Guoren is a member of the Manchu Niohuru clan, which brought forth a long line of Qing Empresses. The elder Lang is also a musician; he plays the traditional Chinese stringed instrument erhu. At the age of two, Lang watched the ""Tom and Jerry"" episode ""The Cat Concerto"", which features Franz Liszt's"
"album, """". For the piece ""Time for Dreams,"" on his 2008 album ""Dreams of China"", Lang Lang collaborated with German electronica musician Christopher von Deylen. While Lang Lang has also worked with singers like Taiwanese R&B star Jay Chou and Chinese folk singer Song Zuying, none of these collaborations have been published. Lang Lang has achieved considerable commercial and critical success. His albums have ranked on ""Billboard"" charts, including the Top Classical Albums chart. Lang Lang discography The discography of classical pianist Lang Lang includes nine studio albums, four live albums, one single, one compilation, two soundtracks, and three contributions"
"Bexley leg. On 24 August 2012, he was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his engagement in the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. On 28 October 2013, Lang was chosen by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to be a United Nations Messenger of Peace—a role he says is more important than his music because it can help improve the lives of children around the world through education. His Sony ""Chopin Album"" received the 2013 Echo Klassik Award. Lang Lang Lang Lang (; born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese concert pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in"
"Lang calls ""musical-cellular processing"", which Lang says is derived from Leibniz’s Monadology. Bernhard Lang Bernhard Lang (* February 24, 1957 in Linz) is an Austrian composer, improvisationalist and programmer of musical patches and applications. His work can be described as modern contemporary music, with roots, however, in various genres such as 20th-century avant-garde, European classical music, jazz, free jazz, rock, punk, techno, EDM, electronica, electronic music and computer-generated music. His works are performed on all relevant festivals of modern music and range from solo pieces and chamber music to large ensemble pieces and works for orchestra and musical theater. Besides"
"Bernhard Lang Bernhard Lang (* February 24, 1957 in Linz) is an Austrian composer, improvisationalist and programmer of musical patches and applications. His work can be described as modern contemporary music, with roots, however, in various genres such as 20th-century avant-garde, European classical music, jazz, free jazz, rock, punk, techno, EDM, electronica, electronic music and computer-generated music. His works are performed on all relevant festivals of modern music and range from solo pieces and chamber music to large ensemble pieces and works for orchestra and musical theater. Besides music for concert halls, Lang designs sound and music for theater, dance,"
"Buddhism. She performed Leonard Cohen's ""Hallelujah"" live at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Previously, she had performed at the closing ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Lang possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano. Lang was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Audrey Bebee and Adam Frederick Lang. She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian-Jewish, Icelandic, and Sioux ancestry. When Lang was nine months old, her family moved to Consort, Alberta, where she grew up with two sisters and one brother on the Canadian prairie. Her father, a"
"Lang is ""evangelical in his efforts to spread the popularity of classical music."" In October 2008, he launched the Lang International Music Foundation in New York with the support of the Grammys and UNICEF. In May 2009, Lang and his three chosen scholars from the foundation—Charlie Liu, Anna Larsen, and Derek Wang, aged between eight and 10 years old—performed together on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show""."" In June 2011, Lang was engaged by Telefónica to make appearances concerning culture, technology, education and social commitment. On 22 July 2012, Lang carried the London 2012 Olympic torch through Hornchurch on its Redbridge to"
"Jeff Lang Jeff Lang (born 9 November 1969) is an Australian songwriter, singer and slide guitarist. He is a leading performer in the Australian roots music scene and purveyer of his self-described ""disturbed folk"" style, which incorporates primarily folk, blues and rock. The songwriting in his music is heavily influenced by the folk music of the southern United States and the British Isles but has distinctly Australian lyrical content whilst his guitar playing mixes folk, blues and rock styles with Indian and African modalities. He plays various types of guitar, both slide and standard, as well as banjo, mandolin, Chumbush"
"Thomas Lang Thomas Lang (; born 5 August 1967) is an Austrian drummer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer. He is the founding member of the Los Angeles-based progressive/avant garde metal band stOrk and is known for his international session work on a wide variety of genres such as rock, pop, jazz, and heavy metal with artists such as Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel, Robbie Williams and Sugababes, among many others. He is married to music publicist, Elizabeth Lang. Peter Wildoer described Lang as a ""drummer's drummer"", and Mike Portnoy cited Lang as a drummer he ""can't replicate"". Thomas Lang, a native"
"""conquer crowds with youthful bravado"" is phenomenal among classical musicians. His maturity in subsequent years was reported by ""The New Yorker"": ""The ebullient Lang Lang is maturing as an artist."" In April 2009, when ""Time"" Magazine included Lang in its list of the 100 most influential people, Herbie Hancock described his playing as ""so sensitive and so deeply human"", commenting: ""You hear him play, and he never ceases to touch your heart."" In 2001, after a sold-out Carnegie Hall debut with Yuri Temirkanov, he traveled to Beijing with the Philadelphia Orchestra on a tour celebrating its 100th anniversary, during which"
"1968 recording of Karl Ganzer’s composition ""Das Kufsteiner Lied"". Throughout the 1970s, he was a permanent feature of musical variety shows on West German television, especially on the ZDF program ""Lustige Musikanten"". Lang has sold more than 10 million recordings; he has earned 20 gold records and one platinum record within the German recording industry. He was known as one of the most famous yodelers to have ever lived. He was married to his wife Johanna since 1954; he had one son (Franz Herbert Lang) and one daughter (Christl). He died at a Munich nursing home on 6 December 2015"
"four traditional Chinese instruments - erhu, pipa, yangqin and guzheng - was commissioned by LSO UBS Soundscapes, and premiered by Lang Lang (pianist) and the Silk String Quartet with the composer conducting in April 2009. His second Celebrating English Song commission, ""Dead Letters"", was premiered in July 2010, and ""The Earth and Every Common Sight"", for soprano and piano, won the Tracey Chadwell Memorial Prize 2010. His first major orchestral work, ""The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured"", written for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, was premiered by the orchestra under the baton of Yu Long in January 2013. It was nominated in"
"Franzl Lang Franz ""Franzl"" Lang (28 December 1930 – 6 December 2015), known as the ""Yodel King"" (), was a yodeller from Bavaria, Germany. Lang also sang and played the guitar and the accordion and was the author of several books on yodelling. Lang’s genre is German folk music; he typically sang in the Bavarian dialect of the rural Alpine regions. By general consensus, Lang was considered to be the best Alpine yodeller in the world. Raised in Munich, Lang trained as a toolmaker. He started playing his trademark accordion at the age of nine. His greatest hit was his"
"It is the Chinese star pianist Lang Lang, who will be giving a guest performance in the Viennese concert hall. Still suffering from jet lag, he has to choose an instrument to play. His overcrowded tour calendar leaves little time for individual settings. Instead, and almost shyly, he asks for a heavy bench that will hold up through his extrovert style of playing without sliding around. The piano superstar completes his performance in the large hall in a dark suit and wild hairstyle. The bench holds up, and he receives thunderous applause. The sketches of the comedy duo Igudesman &"
"of The Cathedral of Messiah in Jakarta, with his wife, Jessy Chang and Jakarta Oratorio Society on Thursday, September 18, 2008. Under STEMI, he commits himself to visit Aula Simfonia Jakarta at least once a year He still serves as a volunteer Vice President of the Stephen Tong Evangelistic Ministries International (STEMI). On June 15, 2012 Ling conducted famous pianist Lang Lang's 30th birthday concert with the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra at O2 World in Berlin which was attended by more than 10,000 people and televised live in German and Spanish TVs. Lang Lang also performed with Ling and the"
"Chinese pianist Lang Lang, and was nominated a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song. In April 2006, Zhang sang with Bob Hawke at the Boao Forum for Asia. In October 2006, her first studio album ""The One"" was released. The album was produced by American record producer Craig Williams and Reid Hyams. In March 2007, she performed in a concert held in Pasadena, California with Japanese musician Kitarō and American musician Gavin Christopher. In July 2007, Zhang recorded the theme song ""Light the Passion, Share the Dream"" for the 2008 Summer Olympics touch relay with Wang Leehom,"
"Film and Sound Archive of Australia's National Folk Recording Award. Lang's interest in music was sparked at a young age, inspired by records his parents played at home. His early influences were AC/DC, Bob Dylan, Leo Kottke, Ry Cooder, Roy Buchanan and Neil Young. After playing the clarinet for six years he took up the guitar after discovering his older sister's discarded nylon string acoustic. He played electric guitar in various local bands in his hometown of Geelong before forming his own band and moving to Sydney in 1990 with the aim of playing his own compositions. In 1992. Lang"
"up includes Barry Alexander from Minneapolis on drums, James Anton from Minneapolis on bass, Akil Thompson from Nashville on rhythm guitar, Dwan Hill from Nashville on keys, Missi Hale from Los Angeles on background vocals. Lang's current band line up is Barry Alexander on drums, James Anton on bass, Tyrus Sass on keyboards and Zane Carney on rhythm guitar. On September 17, 2013, Lang released his first studio album in seven years, ""Fight for My Soul"". The studio album, ""Signs"", saw release on September 1 in Europe, and on September 8, 2017, in North America. Lang married former ""Kids Incorporated"""
"Lang Lang discography The discography of classical pianist Lang Lang includes nine studio albums, four live albums, one single, one compilation, two soundtracks, and three contributions to releases not under his name. His first album was released in 2000 under Telarc International Corporation. In 2003, he signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon and released several albums with them. In February 2010, Lang Lang signed with Sony Classic. Lang Lang has recorded two soundtracks, including the score by Alexandre Desplat for the 2007 movie ""The Painted Veil"". He has contributed to several albums of other musicians, including Andrea Bocelli's greatest hits"
"from Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Franzl Lang Franz ""Franzl"" Lang (28 December 1930 – 6 December 2015), known as the ""Yodel King"" (), was a yodeller from Bavaria, Germany. Lang also sang and played the guitar and the accordion and was the author of several books on yodelling. Lang’s genre is German folk music; he typically sang in the Bavarian dialect of the rural Alpine regions. By general consensus, Lang was considered to be the best Alpine yodeller in the world. Raised in Munich, Lang trained as a toolmaker. He started playing his trademark accordion at the age of nine."
"is known as a strong live performer, which is reflected in the number of live recordings he has released. Lang primarily plays acoustic guitars, although he has an unorthodox way of amplifying them, running a combination of a built-in microphone and a Sunrise magnetic pick-up together for his clean acoustic sound, while also running the output of the Sunrise pick-up through various effects through an electric guitar amplifier allowing him to obtain both acoustic and distorted electric guitar tones from the same guitar. This approach has been hugely influential in the Australian scene, particularly after the well-known guitarist John Butler"
"Marcel Lang Marcel Lang (June 13, 1956 - June 27, 2009) was a Swiss chazan (cantor) and singer (tenor). Marcel Lang was born in Basel into a family in which the East European Jewish tradition of chazanut (cantorial art) was cultivated. After first training as a commercial clerk, he studied singing with Kurt Widmer and Hans Riediker at the Music Academy of Basel and the affiliated opera studio. After qualifying as a singing teacher, he studied at the Zurich Institute of Applied Psychology. In his capacity as a certified psychologist, Marcel Lang acted as a consultant to companies and advised"
"unpretentious, and earthy."" All songs written by Peter Lang unless otherwise noted. The Thing at the Nursery Room Window The Thing at the Nursery Room Window is the title of the debut recording by American folk and blues guitarist Peter Lang, released in 1973. It was reissued in 2000 with three bonus tracks. Allmusic reviewer Alex Henderson wrote in his review: ""This is essentially a folk recording, although Lang's brand of folk easily incorporates elements of southern country blues, bluegrass, and Appalachian music... Although the Minneapolis native has impressive chops, he never lets them get in the way of his"
"instruments, in collaboration with Temple Contemporary, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boyer College of Music and Dance, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the school district, Lang is writing a symphony specifically for the sounds that the instruments make in their broken state. Community members can play in the orchestra or adopt an instrument, and after the performance all the instruments will be fixed and returned to the public schools. He wrote the arrangements for the Kronos Quartet in ""Requiem for a Dream"", scored the documentary ""The Woodmans,"" and wrote the soundtrack for ""(Untitled)"". In ""(Untitled)"", Lang wrote the score and"
"Petra Lang Petra Lang (born 29 November 1962) is a German opera singer. Beginning as a mezzo-soprano, from 2012 a soprano, she is known for her interpretation of music by Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler. She made an international career in both opera and concert. She has performed at the Bayreuth Festival from 2005, singing the title role of Isolde in 2016. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Lang first studied the violin. She then studied voice with Gertie Charlent at the in Darmstadt and at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz. She also attended the ""Opernstudio"" of the Bavarian State"
"concert pianist, opera singer and actress Doe Lang, born Caplow. Their son Brian Lang is a concert violinist, and their daughter Andrea Lang was a graphic designer. Andrea died in a Santa Barbara wildfire in 1990 while attempting to flee her home. Lang, who was married to Jenifer Harvey Lang at the time of his death, had been treated for Alzheimer's disease and died at age 86 at his home in Manhattan. He was survived by his first and third wife, his son Brian, and two other children, daughter Georgina and son Simon. George Lang (restaurateur) George Lang (born György"
"and four more in 2007 with repertoire ranging from Antonio Vivaldi to modern Brazilian music. He has also recorded the 24 Paganini Caprices, arranged for flute. James Strauss (flautist) James Strauss (b. November 29, 1974 Recife, Pernambuco) is a Brazilian flautist and musicologist. He is an internationally known performer whose virtuosity has drawn comparisons to Lang Lang and Jascha Heifetz. Strauss began taking violin lessons and he is zenda lakra from his father when he was four years old, but switched to the flute a few years later. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory with Pierre-Yves Artaud, Maurice Pruvot, and"
"the music for the main character, a classical composer played by Adam Goldberg. In Lang's 2015 film score, ""Youth"" for Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, he also provided the music for the protagonist, a composer and conductor played by Michael Caine. ""Simple Song #3"", an original song from ""Youth"", was nominated for the 2016 Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and Critics Choice Award for best original song. In Italy, the ""Youth"" score and ""Simple Song #3"" won the David di Donatello awards for Best Score and Best Original Song. Most recently, he is scoring Paul Dano's film ""Wildlife"". Lang's music has"
"Silenzio, Lajatico, Italy, hosted by Andrea Bocelli. He performed ""Io ci sarò"" with Bocelli, and Liszt's ""Hungarian Rhapsody"". The performance is available on a DVD entitled ""Vivere Live in Tuscany"". In December 2007, Lang performed at the Nobel Prize concert in Stockholm. Collaborating with Seiji Ozawa, he appeared at the New Year's Eve gala opening for the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He also participated in the opening concert at Munich's Olympic Stadium with Mariss Jansons, marking the commencement of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and, in a celebratory concert held the night before the last match"
"recent reviews have been mixed. Lately, a plethora of music critics have protested against too much showmanship; not enough care; not enough sensitivity. But audiences continue to adore him. Lang has become one of those artists whose career prospers outside the boundaries of critical approval. The pianist is bemused by the backlash: ""You get many good reviews from the beginning,"" he says, ""and then the critics start criticising you. It's strange. The things they liked you for first—unique, fresh—they say is great. And then later they say you're too fresh, too unique. But they're the same thing!"" Lang was the"
"film and sound installations. Bernhard Lang came to prominence with his work cycle “Differenz / Wiederholung” (“difference / repetition”) in which he illuminated and examined the themes of reproductive and DJ cultures based on the philosophic work of Gilles Deleuze. Socio-cultural and societally critical questions, as in “Das Theater der Wiederholungen”, 2003 (“The Theatre of Repetitions”), are as closely examined as intrinsic musical and music-cultural problems (“I hate Mozart”, 2006). Another focus is the “recycling” of historic music, which Lang performs using self-programmed patches, applying filter and mutation processes (as in the “Monadologie” cycle). Alongside classical European instruments, Lang also"
"compositions mainly consist of works for choral works, and vocal art songs. He also wrote several works for the accordion which are still popular today. Hans Lang (German composer) Hans Lang (20 August 1897 – 17 July 1968) was a German composer. He studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich with Joseph Haas from 1921 to 1926. In 1927 he joined the faculty at the Rheinische Musikhochschule in Cologne, where he taught for three years. In 1930 he became a teacher at the Konservatorium in Nuremberg and took the role of headmaster at the Städtische Berufsschule für Musiker in"