{"id":159,"date":"2009-02-11T21:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T02:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=159"},"modified":"2014-10-30T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:46:27","slug":"lang-lang-getting-tutored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Lang Lang getting tutored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not like I play piano (I don&#8217;t), but I&#8217;ve never been convinced by most of Lang Lang&#8217;s performances. Too raw. Sure, one can argue it&#8217;s his own interpretation but it really is a bad one if it doesn&#8217;t make sense&#8230; I mean Beethoven is not video game music, which seems to be Lang Lang&#8217;s self professed straightjacket&#8230; Barenboim explains it well and I must say I agree with most of his criticisms:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/42BItJ-vpSA\" width=\"450\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/42BItJ-vpSA\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerMode=embedded\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not like I play piano (I don&#8217;t), but I&#8217;ve never been convinced by most of Lang Lang&#8217;s performances. Too raw. Sure, one can argue it&#8217;s his own interpretation but it really is a bad one if it doesn&#8217;t make sense&#8230; I mean Beethoven is not video game music, which seems to be Lang Lang&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,294,295,292,269,296,297,291],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barenboim","tag-beethoven","tag-lang","tag-lang-lang","tag-music","tag-piano","tag-straightjacket","tag-video-game-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}