Lang Lang has a baby on the way

Lang Lang has a baby on the way

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norman lebrecht

October 18, 2020

The pianist says: ‘I am so excited to announce that Gina and I are expecting our first child. We could not be happier to welcome our new family member to the world.’

Looks like early days yet.

The couple married in June 2019. He is 38, she 26.

 

 

Comments

  • Ken says:

    Uh huh. (Too snarky even for me. Mea culpa.)

    • Ramesh Nair says:

      How fortuitous that Lang Lang’s latest album is JSB’s ‘Goldberg Variations’, the original composition of which was reputedly to settle an insomniac Count. And caring for a baby, Mrs Lang & Lang Lang will presumably have insomnia. He really has everything mapped out, musically, though the baby may prove to be his father’s sternest critic.
      An article on the Goldbergs used to treat renal lithiasis pain :
      http://www.nuclmed.gr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/06.pdf

  • anon says:

    1) “He is 38, she 26.”

    So what? If he followed the model of conductors, she will be his first wife, and the older he gets, the younger the subsequent wives will get.

    2) Congrats Lang Lang, but you know, was there really a need to add to the world population?

    You could’ve just adopted 10 kids from Africa and war zone refugee camps. As it is, the next generations will just suffer catastrophic climate change and nuclear fallout from war between China, US and North Korea.

    • The View from America says:

      … otherwise known as “jumping the snark” …

    • JK says:

      Please shoot yourself for the good of the planet and to reduce overpopulation. Also like that there will be one space open for Lang Lang’s baby.
      Cheers

      • mary says:

        @JK, it’s telling that you wish harm on @Anon when @Anon was not wishing harm on anyone. That says a lot about you.

        • JK says:

          @mary I’d say you’re a little uptight perhaps.
          I was being sarcastic. I was not actually wishing physical harm on this person. Quite the contrary actually. I just wanted to point out how ridiculous the “please stop having kids for the good of the planet” argument is.

      • marija kandil says:

        Another pro killing idiot telling other ppl to kill themself. A psychopath.

    • Maria says:

      Horrible view you have on life.

    • Ms.Melody says:

      A somewhat pathological response to what most normal people consider to be good news in these troubled times. I will add a hearty Mazel Tov and best wishes to the couple.

    • Diana says:

      Such a pessimistic person.

    • Bruce says:

      ” As it is, the next generations will just suffer catastrophic climate change and nuclear fallout from war between China, US and North Korea.”

      …And it will all be Lang Lang’s fault.

    • anon says:

      5 thumbs up, 85 thumbs down

      5 Millennials, 85 OK Boomers

      OK Boomers, the Millennials get me.

    • Marija kandil says:

      Thank u for the rational comment. These delusional pro birth selfish ego maniacs are worse than cancer.

  • Larry says:

    Mazel Tov to them both.

  • McBreen says:

    Do we really need to know this at all?

    Folk are having children everywhere, it is not a unique event.

    • V. Lind says:

      Oh, FCS. This site routinely mentions births, marriages, deaths in the music community. This is a good news story and nothing else. Don’t be such a jerk.

  • Franco Corelli says:

    Good good for for them them.

  • William Safford says:

    Awwwww. That is happy news in these trying times.

  • Greg Bottini says:

    Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. LL, and may the baby be strong and healthy.

    • Sue Sonata Form says:

      As Lang Lang himself was a product of the one-child policy in China no doubt he’s thrilled to be able to control how many children he and his wife want.

  • virginia says:

    How sweet, you have inspired me, you look so very happy

  • Deb says:

    Please don’t call the kid Lang Lang Junior. One Lang Lang is already more than enough.

  • Gift of Music says:

    Please! who cares that these “people” are having a baby,
    an extra addition to an already over-populated troubled world.
    We have far more pressing, important issues in our world to contend with- LL’s sense of self importance is becoming unbearable-already bad enough that the Goldberg publicity stunt more than diminishes the true worth of Bach’s Golden Treasure,
    Bach’s love letter and the ultimate gift to humanity.
    Please don’t make the “priceless” cheap by imitating the relentless
    Advert obsessed machinery of the Greed-driven Market Economy
    that is destroying our world and our Planet earth!

    • Greg Bottini says:

      Wow.
      These are two fellow human beings who are expecting their first baby. They are excited. They are happy. Why are you getting so upset?
      And what on earth does “imitating the relentless Advert obsessed machinery of the Greed-driven Market Economy that is destroying our world and our Planet earth” have to do with Mr. and Mrs. LL’s baby?
      You are deeply weird, Gift. Deeply weird.

  • Licia L. Pannucci says:

    Personally, I’m happy to know that maybe a child of music might be born. Congratulations Mom!

  • Licia L. Pannucci says:

    And Daddy lol…

  • papageno says:

    That’s nice. Maybe he can start getting serious now and stop appearing on Chinese entertainment shows and getting all weird on classics like the Goldberg.

  • Sir David Geffen-Hall says:

    Congrats to Lang Lang.
    Hopefully, the will not name the baby Short Short.

  • Maria says:

    Idiot.

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