The pianist announced in April that he was taking three months off with an arm injury.
It appears his recovery is taking longer than expected.
We hear he has cancelled US dates in the second week of September, starting with the Charlotte Symphony.
We hear that Stephen Rose, former head of…
The Finnish music world is in mourning for…
Singers’ agents tell us of a tsunami of…
The city of Würzburg has been shaken by…
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It all began with a sforzato in Beethoven sonata op. 57 1st mvt, a notorious pitfall for male Chinese.
“Notorious pitfall for male Chinese”?
What an ignorant thing to say!
No, it has something to do with the range of finger spread in massive chords. Chinese people’s hands are relatively small, and there are some Chinese piano factories who adapt the size of their keyboards (and hence, key width) to local evolutionary outcomes. The 19C romantic piano literature never took future developments in consideration, although there have been attempts to design pianos for a subsaharan pigmee tribe, from which the later toy pianos in the West have been developed.
Toy pianos have become very popular with Chinese people:
https://vimeo.com/20724142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAUjg8Nb2Qc
And of course anything narrow and small found its way to the minitature version of things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep5fNEeoh74
You are right, just like holland can’t win football titles.
Oh no, they became European Champion recently. But wait, it was the women’s championship 😀
Holland won the (male) European Championship in 1988
Yuja Wang & Frederic Chiu please note. John has spoken.
We had already 5 angry agents on the phone tonight, and 2 at the gate, so we held an emergency staff meeting down here in the cellar and decided that we will intervene, if needed with physical action, if / when we suspect another such unconsidered comment being in the make.
Sally
This John Borstlap is an ignorant racist. I am Chinese, I have never seen anyone play the top piano. To show a few videos of Chinese people playing toy piano and to claim it is popular among Chinese is worse that me saying John Borstlap’s ancestors made their living trading opium. The 千手觀音 isn’t even a Chinese thing – it originated from India.
I am not familiar with your music, Mr. Borstlap, but you clearly needs to learn some world history (as well as manners) so that you can stop disgracing yourself in a public forum.
It was a joke….. a sense of irony is, I thought, also part of Chinese culture.
I know a good joke when I hear one, thank you very much.
Go back to writing your shxt music and leave other cultures alone, will you?
Sam Ting Wong ?
A default response and a tic for some sad people. You are learning your lessons well.
Sue, JB’s comment is racist.
Thank you!
And a characteristically feeble, ham-fisted attempt at humour (which the Borstlap tribe aren’t good at).
It is not racist, which is proven by the videos I linked, which are trustworthy information.
And for mr Lewis, who got a bad day: you missed the seriousness of my information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESl_ihq0hlM
And then: the hand is important in Chinese culture which compensates for its smallness with extensive dances where the finger spread is artificially extended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5avnhOcUj3g
Maybe our US President’s octaves aren’t so good either.
Your violin Concerto is shit.
And you are a racist.
He needs attention, and he is going to get more with his racist comment than he can ever get with his music
Fortunately there are more than one or two Chinese people around.
So sorry to read this. I hope he is under the best care to treat the condition and move onward soon after. Many do not realize that playing of consistency, traveling etc takes a huge toll in the delicate muscles, tendons etc. Wishing LL a quick recovery.
The circus takes a vacation!
Undoubtedly he works much harder than the average person.
https://www.richmondsymphony.com/who-we-are/media-press-kit/superstar-violinist-joshua-bell-and-child-prodigy-yesong-sophie-lee-to-come-to-the-rescue-to-replace-the-injured-lang-lang-to-open-the-richmond-symphonys-60th-anniversary-2017-18-season/
Lang Lang is the epitome of Shite, to be avoided at all costs.
His website has been updated: recitals have been removed, concerto performances remain.
http://langlang.com/