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Monday, April 26, 2010

Concert pianist Lang Lang dazzles San Francisco with 'Flight of the Bumblebee'... played on an iPad

Concert pianist Lang Lang dazzles San Francisco with 'Flight of the Bumblebee'... played on an iPad


His fingers fly over the instrument, filling a packed symphony hall with sound.
But pianist Lang Lang is not playing an standard piano - instead he is making magic with an Apple iPad.
Using an app called 'Magic Piano', the Chinese musician surprised the audience at the San Francisco concert hall into applause - and laughter - with his rendition of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Flight of the Bumblebee'.
Lang Lang pulled off the impromptu performance as a encore to a concert with young musicians earlier this week.
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The wow factor: Chinese pianist Lang Lang, centre in front of the piano, holds an iPad as he performs 'Flight of the Bumblebees' using the Magic Piano app in San Francisco on Monday
He had been sent the iPad - complete with Magic Piano pre-downloaded - especially by the app's developers, Smule.
Users can play Magic Piano by touching beams of light sent in a stream from the top of the iPad down its screen.
Smule co-founder Ge Wang told the Wall Street Journal that he had not heart from Lang Lang after sending him the iPad.
But when the pianist pulled the very iPad they had sent him out on stage, they were thrilled.
Wang met with Lang Lang before the concert on Monday afternoon and the pair played a few pieces on the app together.
'I’ve never seen the freestyle Magic Piano played like he did,' Wang told the Journal, adding that he thinks Lang Lang 'totally digs Magic Piano and the iPad'.
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