LANG LANG Playing with Flying Keys

Twenty-six-year-old Lang Lang is a world-renowned classical pianist with extraordinary talent and focus. His story illustrates the importance of hard work and the added benefit of a having determined father to help make a dream a reality. He began playing piano at age 3, won his first piano competition at age 5, and was accepted at the Curtis Music Institute of Philadelphia at age 14. Andrew Pang tells Lang Lang's story with a delivery that expresses the pianist’s enthusiastic love of music. While he sounds appropriately young, Pang’s English doesn’t sound natural; his cadence doesn’t have the flow of a native speaker. But even though the rhythm is slightly off, it doesn’t detract from the story of a uniquely talented and focused young man. N.E.M © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2008]