We are also obliged to reflect the impactWe therefore ask them time but not of debtIronically the success of Europe is shamJacobs analyst for DisplaySearch NDP in a noteIt is this problem that tackles co sub AmiensBut the reform of the CNRS drives the nailIt is far too early to make a final judgmentfinancial institutions of their toxic assetsParis entries are unworthy of the capitalThe first objective is to reduce unemploymentLang Lang has twenty-six years, a physics and star charisma to resell. In China, he is a God, in the United States a superstar. But any way to get this far! Only son, the rule dictated by the authorities, it is, according to his own words, "the child of two musicians" whose ambitions had been broken Taken in hand by a father who imposed an almost inhuman discipline, from an early age, it does that a single goal: be the number one.
Closed to the West in the years 1960-1970, the Chinese borders eventually to unfetter. The Germany, the Japan (Tchaikovsky Competition: "there was the Sun in your game", said one of the judges), the United States, finally, live one of the idols of Lang, basketball player Michael Jordan. He returned in 1997 to be a student of Gary Graffmann at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia ("I absorbais the town by all the pores of my skin")... always flanked by his parent! The first commitments, meetings (Christoph Eschenbach at Ravinia: "it was Yul Brynner in"The King and I""), the Chicago Philharmonic in a concert to replace André Watts, Daniel Barenboim... Finally recognition in China, and a gold in Deutsche Grammophon recording contract. Not bad for the young man who, while small, had been fascinated by Tom and Jerry in "The Cat Concerto"! A beautiful road, but can not stop reading these memories of find them a bitter taste for stolen children.
Rudy chooses freedom
Mikhail Rudy subtitled his "novel of a pianist" "The Impatience to live", which corresponds more to the reality. "The music entered my life almost by accident." I was four years old. "In the Communist Russia, Stalinists-Donetsk, the child and his family know poverty, as, on both sides, the grandfathers were considered traitors to the homeland and shot. The music will disrupt their lives. The qualities of the young boy are soon seen. The young person, yet more attracted by the margins by the rigidity of the system; with his friends, he founded a pop group, listening to jazz, devours books, including not found as it is available under the coat. Admitted to the Moscow Conservatory (a boon to this "rat of cities" to discover "the schizophrenic world"), he studied with Jacob Flier. The KGB before. Rostropovitch hand, Parajanov filmmaker is imprisoned. In 1975, Rudy is part of the Soviet delegation that attends the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud competition in Paris and won first prize. Jacques Lonchampt, "World", compared to Glenn Gould! Late 1976, in Paris again, he chooses freedom and requested political asylum, under the eye of the DST. New York the tent, it dazzles, but he preferred the French capital, where, at the Conservatory, he is the assistant of Yvonne Loriod. Career develops: United States (1981), Salzburg (1986), London (1987). It is in Moscow that he celebrates, in 2003, its fiftieth anniversary, in dramatic circumstances. However, "this real life binge, consuming love live me are also intact today than in my first sensations of child".
Two testimonies intense, worn by the enthusiasm of having music in the heart.
