Lang Lang’s wedding outshone Marie Antoinette’s
mainNew York Post’s Page Six has some sketchy details of the wedding of the week:
Marie Antoinette might have considered the whole thing slightly over-the-top. We’re told 300 guests — including John Legend and Chrissy Teigen and HRH Prince and Princess Michael of Kent — were treated to a Bach recital by the newlyweds, a seven-course meal, including a “transparency of lobster” served over dry ice and an 8-foot-tall wedding cake accompanied by two Dom Pérignon vintages.
Fireworks followed with a view from the famed Hall of Mirrors.
Slipped Disc hears that not all the guests were phonies.
So where does the money come from? The Chinese government? Hardly from a few dozen mediocre performances of Rondo à la Turk.
Do your homework. LL’s net worth is north of 30 million USD.
“LL’s net worth is north of 30 million USD.”
So where does this money come from? The Chinese government?
It’s actually a lot higher than that if you believe People Magazine:
“The Chinese pianist has an estimated net worth of $215 million. He owes his fortune to smart stock investments, substantial property holdings, lucrative endorsement deals with CoverGirl cosmetics. He also owns several restaurants (the “Fat Lang Burger” chain) in Beijing, a Football Team (the “Shenyang Angels”), has launched his own brand of Vodka (Pure Wonderlang – China), and is tackling the juniors market with a top-selling perfume (With Love from Lang) and a fashion line called “Lang Lang Seduction”.”
The money comes from record sales, and being hired by orchestras at enough money a time.
I don’t know about other parts of the world, but in China he is a superstar with commensurate fees – way above what Pavarotti would have received. So that puts him in the US$500,000 bracket for some gigs. Plenty there to pay for a nice little wedding.
Bitter and twisted. Just because you can rondo ala turk?
Might as well be Rondo ala twerk – new duet version with his wife (after Taylor Swift)
Is it so difficult to wish the new couple well and leave them alone?
Well, it’s NL who regales *us* constantly with the mating and reproductive activites of musicians of highly varying quality.
Their mating and reproductive activities are of unequal quality?
Frankly, the bride looks worse than most…
Nowhere near as ugly as your comment.
pretty sure this is a joke about the picture of LL with Franz W-M above
If a joke, it falls totally flat. Jokes work if readers can actually interpret them correctly. RW2013 would have done better to refrain from any comment of that nature.
Jokes work if readers can understand them. You are correct. Says a lot about the readers, if they can’t. Sense of humour, and such…
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.”
Francis Bacon
Yes, well I can tell you what I usually do with bacon!!!!:-)
PEOPLE! that was a joke on franz welser-most’s ‘nickname. oh, wait, i forgot – trolls don’t have a sense of humor.
So anyone who didn’t get the joke is a troll. OK.
Perhaps this “joke” isn`’t funny at all?
I suppose you look pretty
They’re nice people and wonderful musicians . I wish them all the best. May God’s blessings be upon their marital union. Amen.
And may their union be superb and blessed with manifold issue.
Marie-Antoinette’s wedding might have come cheaper than Lang Lang’s, but at least his fireworks seem to have been safer: 132 people died in the firework accident organized to celebrate the wedding of the future Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
(By the way, they were respectively 15 and 14 year old).
Corrigendum: I am afraid the words of my previous comment were in the wrong order: it’s the firework that was organized, not the accident, sorry! 😉
I’m as happy as the next person to wish people well when they decide to marry. But there’s something vulgar and parvenu about this whole ceremony. I keep thinking more of Liberace than Beethoven.
I do hope the marriage has what the ceremony lacked; class and depth. But I guess the people like their bread and circuses.
Let’s be honest: if it weren’t for SD and all its teachings, we’d never even have known about LL’s wedding. As it is, it hasn’t cost a penny of taxpayers’ money, so they can be as tacky as they like as far as I’m concerned.
bah, only black tie, not white tie, not very fancy.
White tie is for evening events only.
Why not? It’s not nearly as ostentatious as many of the weddings by pop artists and movie stars.
Let all the Lang Lang bashers here bang their heads against the wall.
I love that he married a pianist. In case his damaged shoulder flares up, he can ask his wife to play one hand. He can also ask the concert promoter for her appearance fee too. Brilliant!
Thinking of the original occupants of the place it seems a bit reckless to celebrate an intimate union there.
Also, it is a rule of thumb that the more demonstrative a wedding is, the less stable the relationship.
“Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.” (Joe Murray)
He married Franz Welser – Möst?
A union made ….at the Swiss bank.
Always amuses me the way some people think they have the right to make judgments on how other people celebrate their weddings. Guests, meal, wedding cake, fireworks, music? What is so wrong with this? Oh just so we can wreak our own bitterness on the fact that LL has succeeded in life and can afford it!
Video of part of the wedding on YouTube . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SexPOMni38Y