Lang Lang has set up piano labs in 86 US schools, giving 70,000 children access to keyboards. Photograph: The Lang Lang International Music Foundation.
Plan follows schemes in US and China that have given 180,000 disadvantaged children access to keyboards
He is a Chinese superstar, a piano virtuoso who has sold millions of albums worldwide and regularly topped the classical charts. Lang Lang has also used his fame and fortune to help state schools that lack music, sounding warnings at a 2019 awards ceremony in London that such lessons had become “a real challenge” for children in the most disadvantaged communities. Full story.
Dalya Alberge (The Guardian) / April 18, 2022
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