Pianist Lang Lang says he first encountered classical music as a 2-year-old watching a “Tom and Jerry’’ cartoon on TV.
(ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Lang Lang celebrates Liszt, his hero
Pianist Lang Lang says he first encountered classical music as a 2-year-old watching a “Tom and Jerry’’ cartoon on TV.
(ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Superstar pianist Lang Lang is celebrating what would’ve been the 200th birthday of his hero Franz Liszt by playing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra that will be broadcast live in movie theaters around the world. But first, he’s getting a cheesesteak. “This is a homecoming for me,’’ he said. Lang first came to Philadelphia in 1997 as a 15-year-old prodigy from provincial China to attend the exclusive Curtis Institute of Music.
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