{"id":134,"date":"2010-05-24T06:19:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T06:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wp\/2010\/05\/the_lang_lang_experience_live\/"},"modified":"2010-05-24T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T06:19:07","slug":"the_lang_lang_experience_live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2010\/05\/the_lang_lang_experience_live.html","title":{"rendered":"The Lang Lang Experience, Live And In 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the future of live classical music recitals to turn them into a multimedia experience that is somehow more “familiar” to a generation raised on video screens. Here’s a report<\/a> from Lang Lang’s concert in London over the weekend:<\/p>\n

He is not the first classical pianist to give a solo Albert
\nHall<\/a> recital but few of his predecessors brought along in-your-face
\namplification and multiple screens relaying close-ups of his hands at
\nwork. The sonic perspective rendered his Steinway clangorous and the
\nonly way to make the sound seem “natural” was to watch the screens,
\ntransforming the experience into a TV broadcast rather than a live
\nperformance. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is the future of live classical music recitals to turn them into a multimedia experience that is somehow more “familiar” to a generation raised on video screens. Here’s a report from Lang Lang’s concert in London over the weekend: He is not the first classical pianist to give a solo Albert Hall recital but few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-arts-tech","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ePZm-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":627,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2016\/01\/playing-for-the-screens-is-our-obsession-with-changing-the-live-arts-experience.html","url_meta":{"origin":134,"position":0},"title":"Playing For The Screens – Is Our Obsession With Video Changing The Live Arts Experience?","author":"Douglas McLennan","date":"January 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"One weekend last November, the biggest box-office at movie theatres throughout the UK wasn't for the latest Hollywood blockbuster (the latest \"Hunger Games\" movie opened that Friday). 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