{"id":13202,"date":"2022-05-05T14:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepianogallery.co.uk\/videoshop\/?page_id=13202"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:08:34","slug":"chinese-virtuoso-lang-lang-to-set-up-piano-labs-in-uk-schools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepianogallery.co.uk\/videoshop\/the-pianist-blog\/chinese-virtuoso-lang-lang-to-set-up-piano-labs-in-uk-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang to set up \u2018piano labs\u2019 in UK schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"13202\" class=\"elementor elementor-13202\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9701967 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9701967\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-83cdd4f\" data-id=\"83cdd4f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ec0b64 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0ec0b64\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><h1><strong>Plan follows schemes in US and China that have given 180,000 disadvantaged children access to keyboards<\/strong><\/h1><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-74d7b7d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"74d7b7d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ac2124b\" data-id=\"ac2124b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec7331f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ec7331f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-small\">He is a Chinese superstar, a piano virtuoso who has sold millions of albums worldwide and regularly topped the classical charts. Lang Lang has also used his fame and fortune to help state schools that lack music, sounding warnings at a 2019 awards ceremony in London that such lessons had become \u201ca real challenge\u201d for children in the most disadvantaged communities.\n\nNow he is bringing music to British state schools in an ambitious project that will set up state-of-the-art \u201cpiano labs\u201d across the nation. 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