Yes, it’s true: Pianist Lang Lang’s sensational, globe-trotting career began with a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon. “I was 2 years old,” says Lang Lang (pronounced “long long”) by phone from New York. “It ...

If so, superstar pianist Lang Lang deserves it for his Tuesday night Mozart/Chopin recital, presented by the San Antonio Symphony at the Majestic Theatre. It was Lang Lang's second San Antonio ...

Dull moments aren't just few and far between this weekend at Severance Hall. They're nonexistent. Yet the experience is also hugely uneven, with heat from the Cleveland Orchestra, music director Franz ...

There may be no work better suited to Lang Lang's talents and inclinations than Frederic Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, as evidenced by his remarkable performance last night with ...

13-year-old Lucy is blind and neurodivergent, and left judges speechless with her incredible performance of a Chopin nocturne on Channel 4 show ‘The Piano’. Lucy, who is blind and neurodivergent, is ...

If, like me, your earliest image of Frédéric Chopin comes from Hollywood's A Song to Remember; and if the first thing the composer's name suggests is a handsome young man seated at a grand piano on a ...

Lang Lang is a hero in China and a box-office wonder in the West. So why are reviews so harsh? He talks to Jasper Rees. Is Lang Lang a good thing? When he first sprouted as a teenage prodigy, he was ...

For all his effusive energy at the piano, smiling widely and banging the keys with dramatic flair, Lang Lang is rather remote. Well, literally, he is – as he replies to questions via email. But ...

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