Oct. 23 at 8 30: Lang Lang, rarely out of the news, returns to Gotham to offer a solo recital in moods reflective (Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons"), probing (Bach's "Italian Concerto"), and tempestuous (the four Chopin scherzos).
Hired a year ago from a digital advertising firm to head Time Inc., Time Warner's magazine behemoth, Ms. Lang was optimistically viewed as an out-of-the-box answer to the knotty problem of making a print company dance in a digital era.
She should have been able to go on for ever, working up a career as a dramatic actress and doing the occasional Auld Lang Syne singing tour for the out-of-town drunks.
When the child returned from school — because the choir he accompanied, an activity that gave him great satisfaction, had an extended rehearsal — Lang Guoren screamed uncontrollably and seemed "out of his mind," Mr. Lang writes.
Lang burst out of the room with a pair of grenades cocked in his hands.
"train/dev" stands for training/development, "IN-LANG" refers to in-language terms, "OUT-LANG" to foreign terms, "SINGLE" to single-word terms, "MULTI" to multi-word terms, "INV" to in-vocabulary terms, "OOV" to out-of-vocabulary terms, and "occ".
82 (346) 31 (372) 33 (350) 'dev' stands for development, 'IN-LANG' refers to in-language terms, 'OUT-LANG' to foreign terms, 'SINGLE' to single-word terms, 'MULTI' to multi-word terms, 'INV' to in-vocabulary terms, 'OOV' to out-of-vocabulary terms, and 'occ.' stands for occurrences.
Lang Lang took time out of his busy musical schedule to spend the day with young children at a kindergarten in Beijing and to shoot a public service announcement with Cookie Monster from Sesame Street.
In the years following his appointment, Lang spoke out on a range of social and economic issues, and in support of improved working conditions.
Lang knows how to create a striking atmosphere: one man crawled out of the opening, then another; the women manipulated the objects, which became toroidal tutus.
