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Check out the video of the fantastic Chinese classical pianist, Lang Lang, playing a piece by Ravel with the legendary Herbie Hancock in front of the Obama's at this past week's state dinner in honor of Premier Hu Jintao:

After your finished watching the video above, you can read James Fallows (The Atlantic) piece on the happenings that night:

My wife and I were seated two rows behind Bill Clinton during the music, and -- what a surprise! -- you could see him moving, bopping, smiling the whole time. When the event was all over, at the moment pictured above, Obama made the normal statesmanlike remarks -- and then had a nice ad libbed comment, that he thought he had detected Hu Jintao tapping his foot during some of the numbers. If you have seen the normal immobile public mien of Chinese leaders you get the joke. Hu gave the standard "heartfelt greetings!" response, but I mainly thought: it's a performance that made you proud and happy to be an American and had to have had some infectious effect.

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