After the boy refused, he suggested they jump from the balcony of their apartment. When the nine-year-old boy’s teacher suspended him, his father gave him a pack of sleeping tablets and urged him to swallow 30.
Lang Lang has written at length about his father in his autobiography A Journey of a Thousand Miles. His much-missed mum stayed behind to earn money for the lessons. When he was nine, his father Lang Guoren left his job as a policeman and moved to Beijing with his son, living in rat-infested rooms, while Lang Lang tried to get entrance into the renowned Central Conservatory of Music. The story of Lang Lang’s relationship with his father who became obsessed with him becoming China’s No.1 pianist has oft been repeated. "Liszt was the first composer who inspired me to play classical music." Bad Cop, Good Cop? 2 in a dinner jacket." Lang Lang knew right then and there he recalls, that he wanted to be like Tom. "It was the episode where Tom the cat plays a concert pianist and performs Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.
My parents bought our piano before I was born - it cost half their annual salary."Īs a two-year-old toddler he watched an episode of Tom and Jerry, his first encounter with Western classical music. According to Lang Lang: "The piano was becoming an important instrument. They’d married at the end of the Cultural Revolution, when China was starting to re-connect with the west. His name means "sunshine." As a product of China’s one-child policy, he became the sole focus of his parents who both loved music. Lang Lang was born in Shenyang, the industrial city north-east of Beijing. The boom he’s triggered in Chinese children learning the piano, dubbed "the Lang Lang effect" is estimated at 40 million.Īfter injury in 2017 forced him into a sabbatical from concert life, Lang Lang is back with a new album Piano Book, and giving concerts in Australia for the first time since 2016. Lang Lang is symbolic too of China’s determination to make a name in the cultural sphere. The lonely Chinese child prodigy brought up by a tyrannical father, rising phoenix-like from poverty at the end of the Cultural Revolution to become one of the hottest properties in the classical music world. Of course, his story makes great copy too. How many words have been written already about the phenomenon that is Lang Lang? His playful, flamboyant approach to music has won him a zillion fans and also a few critics. Now, I'm interpreting it with both a child's curiosity and an adult's maturity."Of course, classical music has a serious high level, but why can we not have fun too?" "I like the meaning behind the work, which has affected me with different feelings at different ages. "Everyone has their own dreams, no matter whether they are memories of the past, a daydream about the present or a hope for the future," she said.
"Träumerei," which means "dreaming" in German, has been one of Redlinger's favorites since childhood. Some traditional Chinese music is like ink-wash painting, which foreign audiences like very much, she added. "Now I live in China, and am getting more and more knowledgeable about Chinese culture." "I grew up in Germany, but am married to a Chinese who explained all the background and meaning of the Chinese compositions to me," said Redlinger. Apart from Schumann's "Träumerei," Liszt's "Consolations" and Brahms' "Lullaby," the album features Chinese works like "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" and "Dance of Waterweeds." The programs range from classical to modern, both Western and Chinese. Gina Alice Redlinger and her husband Lang Lang play a piano duet at the press conference to release her first single, "Träumerei."
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