majar chicago if my mother had witnessed this performance she would have fainted right there on the floor i'm sure. my parents are no more but my four elder sisters are still alive right. and the most important member of the family the piano. it followed me to the farm for re-education and through labor camp and it followed me back again to beijing it's the patriarch of our family they are white so we need to get the keep and felt replaced yes we did years even years sheen this a whole my mother couldn't learn to play the piano because my grandfather forbade it she says she invested all her hopes and dreams in me she wanted me to realize her dream of playing the piano she invested all her energy and did everything she could for me in beijing during the cultural revolution she was afraid people would say i was playing the big western drum exchange even in the winter and they are very cold in beijing pretty she would stand guard outside every night wrapped in a blanket. or an. the conservatory of music is where i grew up i spent more time there than i did at home. school shoes. the happiest