When I was a child, I began learning to play the piano, which was my favourite musical 1 , but I was forced to give up when I started my middle school so that I could concentrate more on my studies.
It's one of my biggest 2 to stop practising the piano when I recall sadly today. During the following years, I kept telling my piano teacher that I would 3 . However, I didn't keep my promise because I was occupied with my study. 4 I lost touch with my teacher. Some years later, my teacher died. I was very sad because I lost such a good teacher. She was a very warm and gentle person. It hurts me to think she may have been 5 that I never returned. I haven't taken lessons since then but to be honest, I 6 to. Sitting at the piano, I couldn't help recalling many memories—times of my practising at home and playing before my teacher and one time my teacher 7 me after I played entire pieces of music wrong in front of her colleagues. I was so 8 that I could hardly say anything. But her 9 helped ease my shame. These memories, 10 , good or bad, never caused my courage for playing the piano again.
This thought then led me to think that 11 is like music, and that we all try to play different 12 in the instrument of our life. Sometimes the pitch (音准) 13 when we play it well, but sometimes we are out of tune. However, we all continue to create our own 14 style of music. No matter what style our music is, it is important that we sing the songs of joy, quietness and love. Though I may never make it back to piano lessons, it doesn't 15 that I've stopped making music.
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the most popular of modern artists. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is showing its respect and admiration for the artist and his powerful personality with an exhibition bringing together over 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings and more. Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly The Persistence of Memory. There is also L'Enigme sans Fin from 1938, works on paper, objects, and projects for stage and screen and selected parts from television programmes reflecting the artist's showman qualities.
The visitor will enter the World of Dali through an egg and is met with the beginning, the world of birth. The exhibition follows a path of time and subject with the visitor exiting through the brain.
The exhibition shows how Dali draws the viewer between two infinities (无限). " From the infinity small to the infinity large, contraction and expansion coming in and out of focus: amazing Flemish accuracy and the showy Baroque of old painting that he used in his museum-theatre in Figueras," explains the Pompidou Centre.
The fine selection of the major works was done in close collaboration (合作) with the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, and with contributions from other institutions like the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg.
