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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > Entertainment > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Film Music People Television Arts Industry Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters "I bring music back to life" says pianist Lang Lang Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:54am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese piano wizard Lang Lang says he brings music back to life. And if sponsorships help his reincarnations reach a younger, hipper audience, he's for them. "It's a very special moment that I try first to connect to the music and be as the bridge between the music which already exists and the piano, and to bring this music again from underground to reality," the 26-year-old Lang told Reuters. "Every time you play a piece it's like you bring a life, a new life, and when the last note finishes it's disappeared." Having a pair of Adidas trainers named for him and Audi cars to chauffeur him around town is not selling out but, for Lang, a way to help keep Mozart and Chopin in the public eye. "It's a very expensive form to be in...so when a brand like, for example, Adidas or Mont Blanc likes to work with classical musicians, not just great sports stars or big Hollywood actors or actresses, I think it's a great thing," he said. The rags-to-riches figure that is Lang, perhaps the best known young pianist on the international stage today, drawing sellout crowds everywhere, was in London for a 12-day marathon event -- sponsored by Swiss financial group UBS. Working with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Guildhall School, Lang will oversee 100 elementary school pianists at a workshop, give a masterclass for advanced pianists and play two piano concertos, one of them the fiendishly hard Bartok Second. The other is the British premiere of a piano concerto by Lang's compatriot Tan Dun -- composer of the soundtrack for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" -- that Lang said is not film music ("I wouldn't play film music") but is visual nonetheless. The first movement? "Fire." The second? "Water." And the finale? "It's real kung fu fighting," Lang said, making a karate chop to demonstrate how Tan Dun advised him to strike the keys. It's the kind of extravagant, over-the-top affair in which the sometimes spiky-haired but, for this occasion, smoothly coiffed Lang seems to specialize. The rise and rise of Lang -- who began playing piano at age 2, decided classical music was fun when he heard Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in a Tom & Jerry cartoon and performed the virtuoso-level Chopin Etudes in concert at age 13 -- is the stuff of legend. His fraught relationship with his father, perhaps the pushiest parent in music since Leopold Mozart turned his son Wolfgang into a performing chimp for royalty, is well known. Lang, in his book "Journey of a Thousand Miles," relates how his father, irate because his child had failed to show up on time to practice piano, snapped. Screaming "there's no reason for you to live," he tried to force the youngster to commit suicide by swallowing a bottle of "strong antibiotics" and jumping off a balcony. 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