I was watching PBS last night, and it was the live performance by the New York Phil along with “Lang Lang”. I remember reading an article on Lang Lang in the Times, the article was saying that he is a young prodigy and filled of energy.
In my opinion this guy is full of shit, and it took me 30 seconds to realize that He's a fucking show-off. Seriously, it was basically the worst 30 musical seconds of my life. I even got a bad headache out of his histrionics at the piano. The way he "performed" was very unnatural, wacky and really annoying. I don't think he can ever play without making so many movements along with the strange facial expressions. I was not moved at all by his interpretation and his outrageous body movements it was irritating and by no means modest. Here is to you Mister Lang Lang: you aren't Beethoven or Liszt for God's sake quit it with your shenanigans.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think every musician should put some emotions into their music or they would sound and look like that guy on the subway platform, but no one should look if like a hamster in his pants.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
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Post a CommentAt Friday, September 23, 2005 at 3:29:00 PM EDT, 
eatgod
wow.. it's very interesting that everyone has their own music taste.
When Joanne and I was at his concert, both of us enjoyed his pieces a lot. His manner was very showy, but it was amusing to me. (I interpret his manner as " I don't give a shit about the traditional way of performing," which fits my personality.) Of course, people interpret his manner differently (the way they want to see it.)
At Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 1:29:00 AM EDT, riceman
I enjoyed the concert. He was kind of wacky like 周星馳. I was cracking up the whole time, silently of course. With my eyes closed, the piano sounded pretty good. I like Chopin's concerto in E minor. I hated Mahler's music which came on after the intermission. I swear it sounded like 兩隻老虎, 兩隻老虎,跑的快，跑的快!
At Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 6:09:00 PM EDT, Dahtowawa
Perhaps people who were in the concert hall listening to Lang Lang live didn't really get to see the kind of close-up shots that we saw on TV with the live broadcast. There were three cameras pointing at him from three different angles; one was sitting right at the end of the piano. He was constantly looking into the camera. I've seen him performed before. His mannerism was not as bad, but this time, I felt that he purposely exaggerated; almost like he was making all those expressions FOR the cameras.