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Lang Lang is a piano superstar who is not only a very popular concert pianist but also a great advocate for training young musicians through the Lang Lang International Music Foundation. The Lang Lang Young Scholars Program is part of the foundation.
Today we'll find out what these pianists do to avoid getting too nervous before performing. We'll hear from Olivia, Raditya and Taige.
What would do you do if you were so nervous that you couldn't do the thing you loved most for a long time?
After critics trashed his first symphony, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff couldn’t write for years. Then he tried hypnotherapy, and with Dr. Dahl’s daily mantra — "You will write a concerto" — he snapped out of it and wrote one of his greatest works.
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