When she was about four years old, she heard her mother struggling to play a piece of music on the piano.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.

我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的

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In a recent concerto piece called "On a Wire" she had the musicians play a bowed piano.

VOA: special.2010.07.12