Concetti Chiave
- The family has a deep-rooted passion for music, with each member playing a different instrument: the brother plays piano, the father the cello, and the mother is an opera singer.
- Despite the family's encouragement towards classical music, the narrator did not follow the same path and found it challenging.
- The narrator was initially made to learn the violin but found it too difficult and uninteresting compared to their desire to play the drums.
- Parents disapproved of the narrator's wish to learn drums due to noise concerns, preferring classical music over more lively instruments.
- The narrator had to complete a violin exam before being allowed to stop lessons, yet still faces resistance in pursuing drum lessons, leading to frustration.
What is the musical passion of my family?
In my family everybody loves listening to music and playing an instrument: my brother Homyatol plays the piano and he plays in concerts. My father plays the cello and my mother is an opera singer. My parents would have liked me to do same but it didn't work! That's how thing went.
Moreover, my family has always made me listen to classical music and since I was a child they have always taken me to concerts. My house has always been full of old records and tapes first and now, of course, it's full of CDs. We also have some musical instruments, because when my parents decided that we all had to learn to play a musical instrument, my brother agreed to take piano lessons, and as soon as she started, she liked it a lot.
My desire to play the drums
My parents made me learn to play the violin, but after a couple of lessons, i decided it was too hard for me!
So I asked them to study something different. I wanted so much to learn to play drums but they wouldn't let me do that because they said it was too noisy. They didn't let me play anything fun, but only serious and boring music!
For this reason, my teacher always made me play difficult classical pieces and she even made me take an exam! My mother said that If I really didn't want to play the violin, she would let me stop taking lessons after I had passed my exam, which I did, but now she still doesn't allow me to learn to play drums. I really don't know why! it makes me so angry!
Domande da interrogazione
- Why was the narrator unable to pursue their interest in playing the drums?
- How did the narrator's experience with learning the violin unfold?
The narrator wanted to learn to play the drums, but their parents did not allow it because they considered it too noisy. Instead, they were encouraged to play more serious and classical music, which they found boring.
The narrator was made to learn the violin but found it too difficult after a couple of lessons. Despite this, they were required to continue until they passed an exam, after which they were allowed to stop lessons, although they still weren't permitted to learn the drums.