{"id":15433,"date":"2013-10-23T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15433"},"modified":"2013-10-23T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:21:21","slug":"are-we-on-the-cusp-of-a-second-golden-age-for-the-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/10\/23\/are-we-on-the-cusp-of-a-second-golden-age-for-the-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we on the cusp of a second golden age for the piano?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15434\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/psb2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15434\" alt=\"Two young students of the ALM Piano Academy in Gungzhou.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/psb2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/psb2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/psb2-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young students of the ALM Piano Academy perform in Gungzhou.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Are we at the beginning of a second golden age for the piano? It&#8217;s entirely probable, given that China has about 40 million children learning to play the instrument right now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Three of the world&#8217;s most popular pianists are from China: the ebullient Lang Lang, the enigmatic Yundi, and dynamo-in-a-minidress Yuja Wang.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore tries to answer a few questions about what underlies the generation-old explosion of piano playing in a feature article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20131022-piano-mania-grips-china?utm_content=buffer97645&amp;utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of piano&#8217;s future comes down to what playing the instrument means. If it is seen as a ticket to international superstardom, today&#8217;s kids are in for huge disappointment tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But if these kids actually end up loving music because of their lessons, then the future is brighter for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as Keng Zhou, the dean of the piano academy at the Shanghai Conservatory told Sebag-Montefiore: \u201cI think it is a very great, very bright future. Before [parents] wanted their kids to become Lang Lang or Yundi, to become a superstar. Parents have started to change this idea. Now they want their kids to just know classical music and to have the piano accompany their whole life. I hope more and more kids can love to play from their hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we at the beginning of a second golden age for the piano? It&#8217;s entirely probable, given that China has about 40 million children learning to play the instrument right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,22,31,36,39,42,47],"tags":[737,798,1365,2298,6468,3164],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/psb2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-40V","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15437,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions\/15437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}