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NARRATOR: Lang Lang is a unique artist and certainly a unique classical artist,
because this guy has superpowers.
The highest echelon of classical piano playing.
Lang Lang at an early age, like, three, was already playing the piano.
And he had all the world's greatest piano literature
to fill his days and his soul.
There's a stereotype of a classical pianist,
staid and composed and proper,
but Lang Lang, he's more like a rock star.
With Lang Lang, there's always another chapter,
and another level, and another form of expression.
He wanted to do these famous songs from Disney.
A lot of these songs he knew them in his heart.
They meant something to him.
So when you combine that with the world's greatest piano player,
it's like fireworks.
(melodic music playing)
It's a big production. (chuckles)
NARRATOR: Combining Lang Lang and Disney songs,
and the Royal Albert Hall is like the Holy Grail.
The architecture of the building, the history of the building.
This is a special environment.
Let's go.
NARRATOR: The music rising from the stage and the orchestra,
everybody dressed to the nines and playing their hearts out.
For a moment, music carries you away to this other place.
(audience applauding)
LANG LANG: Thank you.
Thank you very much. Beautiful.
How are you?
Thank you.
(applause stops)
("Beauty and the Beast" instrumental playing)
(music fades)
(audience applauding)
(light music playing)
Four, take one, Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie, mark.
MAN: Mark hit.
As a kid, I actually had a very tough practicing process.
MOMENTO FROM 4 MONTHS OLD
RON: Those early years for him were very, very challenging,
there's a lot of piano competitions, there's a lot of pressure,
a lot of pressure on a young boy.
In this new generation, everybody has a lot of, uh,
you know, hobbies.
LANG LANG: But when I was a kid, I... I maybe more focused in music.
He's always very passionate, and he's always very authentic.
His story, really kind of reflects also a lot of Disney values.
GINA: To believe in your dreams, and also to always stay brave,
to take challenges and risks,
and mostly important, um, to have a good heart.
I did a lot of practicing,
and, uh, I think I did six hours when I was six years old,
because I had to go through all those major, minor keys of scales,
arpeggios, chords, octave,
and then I get into the music pieces from Bach, Mozart, to Chinese folk music.
So every day, I actually only have, like, 30 minutes to watch, uh, television,
and then I use that 30 minutes to watch cartoons.
LANG LANG: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, you know,
all those great characters.
This great animation, you know, inspired me,
helping me to understand life, helping me to learn different cultures,
it's also an escape from my hard practicing,
my magic carpet, you know, for 30 minutes every day.
Classical music's part of the success of Disney films.
The music style of Disney
has to be passionate, touching people's hearts,
it has to be emotional.
After Lang Lang became a father, his heart became stronger,
and softer at the same time.
LANG LANG: Something really changes me is when I'm having my first kid.
Once I started playing Tarzan, I found that, through him,
a new Disney journey just start,
and I felt more connected to the character.
(audience cheering)
(applause stops)
("You'll Be In My Heart" playing)
♪ Come stop your crying It will be all right ♪
♪ Just take my hand, hold it tight ♪
♪ I will protect you from all around you ♪
♪ I will be here, don't you cry ♪
♪ This bond between us can't be broken ♪
♪ I will be here, don't you cry ♪
♪ You'll be in my heart ♪
♪ Yes, you'll be in my heart ♪
♪ From this day on, now and forever more ♪
♪ Why can't they understand the way we feel ♪
♪ They just don't trust what they can't explain ♪
♪ I know we're different but deep inside us ♪
♪ We're not that different at all ♪
♪ You'll be in my heart ♪
♪ Yes, you'll be in my heart ♪
♪ From this day on ♪
♪ Now and forever more ♪
♪ Destiny calls you, you must be strong ♪
♪ May not be with you but you've got to go on ♪
♪ They'll see in time ♪
♪ I know ♪
♪ We'll show them together ♪
(vocalizing)
♪ You'll be here in my heart ♪
♪ Yes, you'll be in my heart ♪
♪ From this day on ♪
♪ Now and forever more ♪
♪ You'll be in my heart ♪
♪ Forever and always ♪
♪ Always ♪
♪ I'll be with you always ♪
(vocalizing)
(piano music continues)
(music fades)
(audience applauding)
-Hey, great. That's great. -Bless you.
ALFIE: Thank you.
("Feed The Birds" instrumental playing)
(music ends)
(audience applauding)
(mouthing) Thank you.
(serene music playing)
In our world, classical music world, there always a danger,
like, how far you can go.
Sometimes in classical musical world, we're so comfortable.
You know why? Because every repertoire we play
is already existing for 200 years.
If you look into the Hollywood, if you look into, uh, popular culture,
if they don't create something new, they're out.
They're absolutely out, nobody will remember them in five years.
Yeah, so... so that's a huge difference.
We have to communicate and we have to make some sound.
He loves creating visions and new journeys.
One day he plays Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto,
the next day he plays Bach's Goldberg Variations.
GINA: And then next week, he plays a beautiful Disney program.
So I think it's very fascinating that he can connect these worlds.
He can make very complex and intellectual music,
like, approachable to everyone.
And he can connect people's hearts through music.
Disney music had this magic power to take the audience into a fantasy world.
When you have all those melodies, this is really not just from one culture.
You have Mulan from China,
you have Aladdin from the Middle East.
You have Encanto from Colombia, or Coco from Mexico.
You have a lot of European fairy tales, American-based stories.
You just kind of get your eyes open.
This is the way we should, you know, kind of try to understand music.
I'm trying to get out from the comfort zone,
to create something together with spectacular Disney music,
but in a classical music style, to approach new audience,
and to give them new story to tell.
(audience applauding)
("We Don't Talk About Bruno" instrumental playing)
(music ends)
(audience applauding)
("Remember Me" instrumental playing)
(music ends)
(audience applauding)
Can we just practice one more place before...
I... I mean, the hard place.
For me, it's a bit too slow.
(vocalizing)
-(man humming a tune) -Otherwise, I couldn't follow the... Yeah.
(harmonizing)
So like the first two hours…
HENRY: Lang Lang is just a person who...
He's on a different wavelength.
He's floating on a cloud, he's picking things out of the universe,
and flying on the magic carpet,
and allowing himself to, like, go into this world.
Like-- He doesn't restrain himself.
I think that's a little unusual for classical music
where the notes and the ink rule the day.
-That was beautiful. -MAN: That was beautiful.
-LANG LANG: Okay, Reflection. -MAN: Reflection.
One of the challenge of this project is actually quite hard one.
How to make already existing great melodies from Disney films itself
into a pianistic work with orchestra?
Do you want that a little-- Is that a little held in tempo?
-LANG LANG: Uh, D, yeah? One second. -Yeah. After the…
(vocalizing)
-Maybe from those octaves, yeah? -Yeah, sure. Three bars before.
We knew that we wanted to do these famous songs from Disney.
And the question, with an artist like Lang Lang, is,
his level of approaching the piano is it's so highly evolved,
the highest echelon of classical piano playing.
What do you give to the world's greatest piano player
to convey these songs and these melodies?
LANG LANG: We were very lucky to work with, uh, many of the greatest
piano arranger in the world.
You have to re-write a lot of things.
We actually have the rhythm, we have the harmony,
we have the arpeggios,
we have the octaves.
You can feel this is a real chamber music.
This is a... a piano concerto.
And that gave me the great joy to do it.
So, what you do is, probably, you cut, like, here, remember?
(soft melody playing)
Wow, that was... That is a powerful rehearsal.
I see how much heart and spirit and soul he puts into this project,
and, um, to find great musicians to collaborate with, to find composers,
to find the best and unique and virtuoso, um, arrangements,
to make people happy,
and to let everyone enjoy the beauty of Disney music.
His thing really is to convey emotion through the piano.
Now when you match that up with this incredible technical facility
where every option is open to him,
it's like the ten fingers add up to a hundred.
The bar is set so high, so thought through,
and it all comes down to storytelling.
LANG LANG: Piano has to be absolutely there,
fairy tale style playing.
All those delicacy technique, light, fast.
Technique has to serve music hundred percent.
And if that's too much, we have to cut.
It's not-- This is not just making some kind of a look,
you know, kind of a gimmick that,
"Hey, look, my hand is all over the place."
One may need the hands to be all over the place,
we have to be there, right?
But if we don't need it, if it's too much, we have to cut.
We have to serve music.
("A Whole New World" instrumental playing)
(music fades)
(audience applauding)
("Reflection" instrumental playing)
(music fades)
(audience applauding)
Beautiful. Beautiful.
-LANG LANG: Hello, everyone. -STUDENT 1: Hello.
-LANG LANG: How are you this morning? -STUDENT 2: Hi.
LANG LANG: Hey.
(Lang Lang chuckles)
-How long have you all learned piano? -STUDENT 3: Three years.
Three years already?
LANG LANG: This guy's a musician.
Maybe I... I should hear you play a little bit.
So let's have some fun with your music first,
and then we go from there, okay?
We know through all the years
what kind of effect music has on children's lives.
GINA: Some of the children
don't necessarily have the opportunity to get close
and to get in contact with music and to learn an instrument.
So what Lang Lang does since 2008 already,
he started his foundation in 2008,
is to go into public schools
where music is actually not in the curriculum anymore.
Normally, I like to... to visit, uh, the schools everywhere I go.
We have around 100 schools around the world, in China, in the U.S.,
and now we're coming to Europe.
And it's quite important that we support the kid to learn music,
particularly at the more disadvantaged area in the city.
So I play the bass line and then you can...
(vocalizing)
Good, good, good.
I'm getting tired of looking into the schools,
you know, going there only once in our lifetime,
and then we're happy about it, but actually, you didn't really help much.
LANG LANG: After a musician's gone, they are back to normal.
No music class. We need to take action.
Really get deep into the school system.
Our aim is to improve our education tools.
We always have the smart digital pianos in one class,
20 to 30, uh, digital pianos.
Each kid not only listening to the class, but they have the possibility to play.
That's the aim. Yeah, you have to touch the keys.
(students murmuring)
Every time when I'm visiting a school,
the kids always ask me, "Hey, can you play some Disney music?"
After The Disney Book, I'm much more equipped,
I think now it's so much more fun with the, you know, the repertoire I know,
and to share with the kid.
And also ask them to learn.
GINA: So many children,
they love so much more of going to school because of those music classes.
And it builds their confidence,
and they can achieve their dreams through music
because they see that they're strong.
It's all inside of them already.
It just needs this spark, this chance to come out.
Music is the most fair, should be the most fair art form.
No matter what background you are, on stage, we're all equal.
LANG LANG: On stage, if you're great, the world will choose you.
(laughs)
("Can You Feel The Love Tonight" instrumental playing)
(music ends)
(audience cheering and applauding)
LANG LANG: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
(upbeat piano music playing onscreen)
LANG LANG: This actually I haven't seen.
Rachmaninoff.
Prelude.
What an imagination.
That's incredible.
I got so impressed because, honestly, I didn't know this film.
This is really a musician's life.
Look, boxing with the piano.
When the kid hate practicing,
you know, like boxing his piano. (grunting)
It's exactly like that.
You'll see all different piano schools technique,
is in that, uh, little film.
I mean, the detail is incredible, you know, this love and hate to piano.
(crowd applauding onscreen)
This is always in our imaginations.
I felt that Mickey Mouse already knows about this hundred years ago.
I mean, this is really impressive.
It's incredible that, uh, you see this in the very beginning.
Classical music already,
so much more multi-dimensional.
(serene music playing)
This is really proof that 100 years ago,
Disney already focused classical music into their great creation.
And, uh, to see this direct inspiration from classical music
combined with Disney,
uh, it... it's tremendous.
Fascinating to see that connection in the such early stage in Disney's films.
(bird chirping)
(serene music ends)
("When You Wish Upon A Star" playing)
♪ When a star is born ♪
♪ They possess a gift or two ♪
♪ One of them is this ♪
♪ They have the power ♪
♪ To make a wish come true ♪
♪ When you wish upon a star ♪
♪ Makes no difference who you are ♪
♪ Anything your heart desires ♪
♪ Will come to you ♪
♪ If your heart is in your dream ♪
♪ No request is too extreme ♪
♪ When you wish upon a star ♪
♪ As dreamers do ♪
♪ Fate is kind ♪
♪ She brings to those who love ♪
♪ The sweet fulfillment ♪
♪ Of their secret longing ♪
♪ Like a bolt out of the blue ♪
♪ Fate steps in ♪
♪ And sees you through ♪
♪ When you wish ♪
♪ Upon a star ♪
♪ Your dreams ♪
♪ Come ♪
♪ True ♪
She's great.
(applause stops)
(dramatic orchestral music playing)
(music crescendo)
(music ends)
("Let It Go" instrumental playing)
(music ends)
(audience cheering and applauding)
LANG LANG: Thank you.
It is beautiful.
Thank you.
(cheering and applauding continues)
LANG LANG: This concert really showed every aspect of our goal.
The aim is to get everyone to have their own young heart moment,
no matter how old or how young you are.
Disney music had this magic power, you know, your mind can fly.
And all those incredible musicians, that was kind of like my childhood dream.
So I hope, you know, this, uh...
this energy will inspire others around the world
to achieve their dreams.
(tranquil music playing)