We went to a concert downtown at the CSO today. Lang Lang is a marvelous pianist - - we saw him once before, 5 years ago. He was just starting to become world famous, and Scott had recently read an article about him in Time or Newsweek. We were on our 10 year anniversary trip to Italy, and lo and behold, there he was on our airplane! We introduced ourselves and he said he was performing in Milan and Florence. We were lucky enough to get tickets to one of his concerts, and it was amazing. The performance today was for families, only about 80 minutes. First was a beautiful piece by Schubert for 4 hands, he played with a 14-year-old prodigy. She was great, so graceful! Then a few solo pieces, and then the last few were with 3 other musicians. One played the double bass (which is huge!) and the other 2 played the ehru and the pipa. I'd never heard of them before either. They're stringed instruments, from China, and with that distinctive Chinese sound. It was so fun to watch them all play together - - they were just so obviously having a great time!
It's always great to cram a little culture down the kids' throats.
2 comments:
Love your new background!
I've never heard of Lang Lang but I'll check it out!
You guys are so good at doing these cultural things.
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