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here is one of my previous essays i wrote.
Music is always around my world. Music is the most important thing for me.I was born into a musical family. My father is a music teacher in the Music Middle School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is the director of Brass and Woodwinds. He teaches
Trombones and Tubas.
My family lived on campus since my mother became pregnant. My father's colleagues always said I am growing with music. When I was three years old, I learned violin with my neighbor who taught violin in The Shanghai Conservatory of music. Since I was going to school, I did not have time for practice, but I still watched the musical and opera on the way to school in my father's car. Fantasia is still my favourite musical. There is one piece that influenced me a lot -- "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. This piece had an amazing piano part. I heard a lot of piano music before, but that one made me interested in piano. When I was six years old, my first instrument moved to my room: a piano. At the beginning,
It was not very good start. I did not know how to read the music until I had lessons with my piano teacher for about three months. My dad was really mad about this, or he can not believe it. I could play a sonata, but I could not read music. I watched my teacher's hand moving carefully and listened to the music around and around. The I could play it and without sheet music.
When I was 3rd grade, my school work was getting harder. That reduced my happiness.I did not have enough time for practice,but I still kept practicing everyday. On my eighth birthday party, my father's friend who was my first harp teacher gave me the best gift a little harp. I always said the harp was my favourite ‘toy'.
A lot of people asked me, ‘your father is a trombone teacher, why didn't you choose trombone?' Although I did not learn trombone with my father, I learned a lot of things from him. He always gave some suggestions for practice and choosing music. I went to my father's school since I was in the 4th grade.
Then everything changed, I became more confident and more outbound. I went abroad for exchange programs many times. I went to different countries. I learned different cultures and the different ways of study. I want to Europe every summer for summer camp. Since I went to Europe, I knew how the composers were thinking and feeling because classical music is not from my country. I wanted know more about the real classical music. Music changed my life and made me better.