Here’s Lang Lang, photographed as he gave his first-ever recital in Carnegie Hall:
Change is in the air. Some years ago, Jean-Yves Thibaudet made waves just by wearing red socks. And now this!
(Doesn’t matter, I think, that Lang Lang is getting slammed — in Anthony Tommasini’s Times review, and by others — for distorted, showy playing. That’s related to what he wears, obviously, but not inevitably related. Others will come along, and in fact are surely here already, who dress in their own spectacular fashion, without puffing up the music.)