拓展阅读一公开课.docx

The nine-year-old Marc Yu is from California. He is called Little Mozart. He is too short to reach the pedals（踏板）of a piano. He says, “The problem is that my legs aren't straight. They bend a little, so I have to get very close to the piano.”Marc owes his musical talent to his 34-year-old mother. She played Beethoven CDs to him when she was pregnant（怀孕）.Marc started playing the piano at a friend's birthday party in Los Angeles when he was only two. As the other children were singing “twinkle, twinkle, little star./ he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished his mother, Jenny because that was the first time he'd been near a piano.Marc gave his first public performance at six-the same age as Mozart. After the concert, Marc won a $25,000 university scholarship.At present, he practises the piano eight hours a day. He also studies Music Composition at the famous Colburn Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School.Marc says, "I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelingssadness, excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I shouldn't."