<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charse= t=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>Hi;<BR>He just performed at the Blossom Music Center with the Cleveland= Orchestra in the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It was a very disappointing performance especially the first movement w= here he dragged the tempo down far below the MM.  It was listless and p= robably took 3 minutes longer than that movement normally commands.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>His motions were exaggerated and sometimes got to the point that I had = to look away from the piano to keep from getting seasick (a slight exaggerat= ion here).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I saw Lang Lang two years ago-again at the Blossom Festival- and though= t he was wonderful.  I wonder what happened over these past several sea= sons.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bob Bergantino, RPT</DIV> <DIV>Willoughby Hills, Ohio</DIV></BODY></HTML>