18. Music

Last night, when I wanted to go to sleep, one of my friends shared a video of Piano Concerto No. 2 which was a masterpiece of worldwide famous composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff. This video is performed by my favorite French pianist Hélène Grimaud which is also very famous around the world. It reminds me days when I took piano classes in China.

When I was a little child, my grandfather played a lot of master pieces of music at home. Because he loves music very much and he is good at playing various kinds of instruments such as piano, violin, clarinet, saxophone and so on. He often played different knids of classical music at home. As time passed, I began loving classical music. Under my grandpa’s encouragement, I took piano classes since 5 years old. Though I was young at that time, I really love spending time with my piano. But sometimes when my teacher gave too much homework on playing the piano, I felt terrible. For all of my friends played games outside every day. What I could do was just sitting in front of the big piano and listening to the happy noisies which were come from my window. However playing the piano took me a lot of time of enjoying my beautiful childhood, I still treasure times when I could have plenty of time practice it. Cause when I attended senior high school, I must live in dormitory at school. And there were not enough pianos at school, so it is limited for students to play it. Only students who are major in piano could have access to it. As I did not choose piano as my major, it was hard for me to play it even touched it. At that time I found I love piano so much!!!

Now I study here, in UM. The chances to play the piano is still hard to find. But listening to some great pieces of classical music could somehow smooth the pain. No matter what, music is the only thing that I will pursue all my life time.