A little piano boy born to play the piano

In p>1982, Lang Lang was born in a musical family in Shenyang. My grandfather was a music teacher, and my father Lang Guoren was a literary and art soldier. He worked as a professional erhu actor in the army and entered the Shenyang Public Security Bureau after retiring. Under the influence of family environment, Lang Lang became interested in music at an early age, especially after his parents bought him a domestic upright piano.

One day, the TV series The Journey to the West was playing on TV. When he heard David Jiang sing "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is", Lang Lang was full of passion and immediately immersed in the music. The singing was over, but the unrestrained melody still lingered in my mind, so Lang Lang unconsciously played on the piano. Lang Lang played almost all the melodies of this song. What a child prodigy! Mom and dad were very happy and decided to send their son to learn piano.

When Lang Lang was 4 years old, his father took him to meet Professor Zhu Yafen of Shenyang Conservatory of Music. When Lang Lang sat in front of the piano and played a tune, Professor Zhu was very surprised that such a small child could play the tune so touching! It seems that this child has certain musicians in his heart. No, it should be said that his whole body is full of music! The more professor Zhu listened, the more moved he became. He said to Lang Lang's father, "This is a very talented child, born to play the piano! I will teach him well. "

When practicing for the future "world famous pianist"

, Lang Lang sets himself new goals every once in a while. Whoever plays better will remember his name and swear to surpass it. While surpassing others, the piano skills have improved, and the confidence in practicing the piano well has become more and more sufficient. From the day Lang Lang learned piano,

Dad designed and arranged a timetable to achieve better learning results. Dad also vacated the whole living room for Lang Lang to practice the piano.

With the support of the whole family, Lang Lang gradually developed a good habit of playing the piano every day. Every morning, as long as Lang Lang's piano rings, the neighbors know it's time to get up for work, or they will be late.

At the age of 5, Lang Lang won the first prize in Shenyang Children's Piano Competition.

For Lang Lang's Tomorrow

When Lang Lang was 9 years old, his father asked Lang Lang to study piano at Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, so he resigned and wrote a resignation letter to the unit leader, to the effect that "I must go to Beijing to cultivate my son!"

Soon, Professor Zhao Pingguo from the Central Conservatory of Music met Lang Lang and thought that Lang Lang had a high IQ and was very talented in music. Professor Zhao said to Lang Lang's father, "If I work hard to train this child, his future development will be no less than that of the famous young Russian pianist-Kisin." In this way, Lang Lang was accepted as a disciple by Professor Zhao Pingguo. Go to culture class every morning and learn piano in the afternoon. In order to know more about the piano, my father would stand outside Lang Lang's classroom every class and "eavesdrop". When he got home after class, the father and son were still discussing the lessons taught by the teacher while eating. At the age of 1, he was admitted to the primary school attached to the Central Conservatory of Music with the first place.

Lang Lang has to complete eight hours of training every day. Gradually, he can skillfully play Tchaikovsky's piano concerto No.1, which is very difficult, and also play Rachmaninov's piano concerto No.3.. Even the famous conductor Ma Zeer was surprised: "Where did Lang Lang < P > lay the piano foundation?" Someone told him, "Lang Lang studied in China." Ma Zeer said it was unbelievable.

Lang Lang is a piano himself

Soon, Lang Lang got an opportunity to participate in a musician's competition in Germany. However, in Beijing for five years, three people's lives were supported by Lang Lang's mother alone. How difficult it was! Lang Lang had to pay for the international competition, and he had to pay 5, yuan. Dad borrowed 5, yuan from relatives and friends without telling Lang Lang, and accompanied Lang Lang to Germany. As a result, 12-year-old Lang Lang won the first prize!

After Lang Lang won the first prize in the Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, his father asked Lang Lang to drop out of the Central Conservatory of Music and apply for the Curtis Conservatory of Music in the United States. Lang Lang once again won the first place in this famous American Conservatory of Music.

There, while studying various courses, Lang Lang entered the local high school for cultural classes. In addition to the increasingly mature piano skills, Lang Lang has also taken the first step as a professional pianist from here, and has successively obtained cooperation opportunities with large orchestras such as Cleveland Symphony and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and his piano level has been greatly improved.

On August 14th, 1998, the star concert of Lavinia Music Festival in Chicago, USA was held. This is a five-hour-long music festival, and five world-famous pianists are invited to perform. Lang Lang can not only hear the famous pianist, but also be listed as a substitute for pianist Andrevac. Because Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the "Big Five" in the United States, dropped out because of Andrevac's illness, he took a fancy to Lang Lang and wanted to cooperate with him. Lang Lang, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the famous conductor Ansenbach performed Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's "The First Piano Music", which made 3, audiences boil! The Chicago Tribune said, "Lang Lang is the greatest and most exciting piano genius in the world."

The Life of Bill Gates

Nowadays, if you have a personal computer on your desk, almost all of it has Microsoft's operating system. Bill Gates made personal computers a daily necessities, and thus changed the way of work, life and even communication of every modern person. Therefore, some people say that Bill Gates' contribution to software is just like Edison's contribution to light bulbs.

Bill Gates spent his childhood in Seattle, Washington, USA. Seattle is the base of Boeing Company, and nearly half of the employees in the city work in this company, so people also call Seattle Boeing City. It ranks alongside San Francisco and Los Angeles as one of the three major gateways on the west coast of the United States.

Gates, a 7-year-old boy with sandy hair, likes to read the Encyclopedia of World Books repeatedly. He often reads this big book, which is almost 1/3 of his weight, for hours on end, word by word. He is often lost in thought, and somehow he seems to feel strongly that what a magical and magical world there is in small words and huge books! The symbols of words can actually record and spread the interesting things of predecessors and people all over the world. He thought, human history will be longer and longer, so the encyclopedia in the future will be bigger and heavier! Is there any good way to make a magic box as big as it is, and how convenient it is to put a large encyclopedia in it in an all-encompassing way? This wonderful spark of thought was later realized for him, and it was smaller than a cigarette box, just a small chip.

Gates is reading more and more books and thinking more and more questions. Once he suddenly said to his fourth-grade classmate Carl Edmund: It is better to be an oak tree standing on a bald hill than to be a grass in the lawn. Because the grass is the same and has no personality, while the oak tree is tall and straight, holding its head high in the sky. He insisted on keeping a diary and writing down his thoughts at any time. At a young age, he was often as thoughtful as an adult. He realized a long time ago that human life is hard-won, and he should cherish this precious opportunity that is not alive. In his diary, he wrote: Life is a grand appointment. For a person, the most important thing in life is to keep the supreme promise put forward by the accumulated reason of human beings ... So what is the promise? Is to do something earth-shattering. In another diary, he wrote: Perhaps, human life is a burning fire, and all one can do is try his best to save something from this fire. This? The awareness of catching up with life is rare among children of the same age.

Gates's promise is good, and his pursuit of what he wants to save in life is reflected in his daily actions, that is, any homework at school and homework assigned by teachers, whether playing musical instruments, writing compositions or sports competitions, he will devote all his efforts and spend all his time to finish it best.

The teacher assigned his fourth-grade students a composition about the special functions of human body, requiring four or five pages. As a result, Gates used the encyclopedia in his father's study and other books on medicine, physiology and psychology to write more than 3 pages in one breath. Another time, the teacher assigned his classmates to write a story of no more than 2 pages. Gates tried to extrapolate and wrote a magical and tortuous story of up to 1 pages, which surprised both teachers and classmates! People say he: No matter what Gates does, he always likes to reach the top, and if he doesn't speak, he will make a splash, otherwise he won't be content.

Gates also showed this spirit of not falling behind in sports and social activities. There was a boy scout's 8-kilometer hiking March in the summer vacation, which lasted for a week. He wore a pair of brand-new high boots, which obviously didn't fit well. The 13-kilometer hiking March every day, climbing mountains and crossing forests, made him suffer a lot. On the first night, his heel was worn out and many blisters appeared on his toes. He gritted his teeth and kept going. The next night, his feet were very red and swollen, and his cracked skin was bleeding. His companions advised him to stop, but he shook his head, just asked the team doctor for some cotton wool and gauze to wrap it up, and asked for some painkillers to take, and continued on his way. In this way, he insisted on a checkpoint on the way. When the leader found that his foot was seriously inflamed, he ordered medical treatment and stopped the March. Gates' mother came from Seattle, and when she saw his feet festering, she cried sadly and complained why her son didn't stop marching earlier. Gates said simply, "It's a pity that I didn't reach my destination this time."

In 1969, the Seattle Lakeside Middle School where Gates was located was the first school in China to offer computer courses. At that time, there was no PC, and the school only got a terminal, which was bought by collecting a large amount of money from the society and parents. This terminal is connected to a small electronic computer PDP--1 owned by other units. It can only be used for a short time every day, and the cost per hour is high. Like discovering the New World, Gates got into the computer room to operate the terminal whenever he had time, almost to the point of forgetting to eat or sleep. At the age of 13, he independently compiled the first computer program, which can play the game of soft landing of the moon on the computer screen. July 2th of this year happened to be the day when American astronauts Ames Lang and Aldrin took the lunar module, representing the first time that human beings set foot on the surface of the moon. Gates thought to himself, I can't go to the moon by spaceship, so let me use the computer to realize my dream of going to the moon!

But it didn't last long. After only half a year, Hubin Middle School no longer had the money to pay the rent for the expensive PDP--1 minicomputer. This incident made Gates feel as miserable as if he had lost his chance to go to school, because he was fascinated by computers by this time. So he and his classmates ran around and finally found an opportunity to help a computer company called CCC catch bugs and pay for their computer operation with the reward of pest control. What is a Bug? This is synonymous with people in the computer industry calling software errors, that is, annoying bugs. Because once you have this bug, it will cause the computer to export wrong results or crash. The Mariner rocket sent by the United States to Venus and the French Leona rocket failed to launch because of the computer software failure (bug), losing hundreds of millions of dollars. Gates excitedly made an appointment with several computer enthusiasts among his classmates. Every night around 6 o'clock, CCC employees came to work there by bike after work. There are many teletype terminals available there, and there are all kinds of computer software to study, which is really like a duck to water. Gates was so obsessed with computer software that he stayed there almost all night, just as he was determined to make a new name when he was in elementary school. Every night, he wrote a computer bug in the record book of CCC company that he and his partners found. Through this period of catching bugs, Gates learned a lot of knowledge and skills in computer hardware and software that he couldn't learn in books and schools, and laid a profound foundation for future research and development.

In 197, when Gates was 15 years old, his computer talent was well known. A company called Information Science approached Gates, hoping to provide computer time using PDP-1 in exchange for the software technology of Gates and his classmate Paul. Because according to American law, minors can't be paid wages, so the company decided to pay them $1, worth of computer time and asked them to design salary management software for the company. This gave them enough computer time for one school year, and they couldn't help being extremely happy. In 1971, Hubin Middle School asked Gates to help the school design a set of computer software for arranging classes. At that time, the timetable was entirely manual. Due to the large number of students and the complexity and diversity of courses, people often arranged courses unevenly, resulting in overcrowding of students in some courses. Gates successfully completed this arduous task, and extended his precious time using the computer.

In 1973, TRW Company, an American defense project contractor, wanted to develop a computer supervision and control system for managing reservoirs, but it could not eliminate all kinds of computer bugs, and the progress was slow, and it was about to be punished for breach of contract. At this critical juncture, TRW Company learned about Gates and paul allen, two small computer geniuses, and asked them for help. The two boys agreed happily. This is a very professional and difficult job, and according to the regulations, middle school students can only get the low salary of work-study students. But Gates doesn't care. His main purpose is to improve and exercise his software design ability through this kind of work. Hubin Middle School is also very open-minded, allowing senior students to practice and work in enterprises after completing the prescribed courses. Thanks to the joining of Gates and Paul, TRW finally completed the project on time and avoided huge fines. Gates and Paul got specific guidance from a computer expert in the company, which improved their software skills.

Young Gates In the early 197s, Gates wrote a famous Open Letter to Enthusiasts, which shocked the computer world. Gates declared that computer software will be a huge commercial market, and computer enthusiasts should not copy computer programs without the consent of the original author. At that time, the computer industry was influenced by hacker culture, and thought that creativity and knowledge should be enjoyed by * * *. Gates then left the campus, founded one of the most successful enterprises in the world-Microsoft, and gradually industrialized the software.

in 1975, at the age of 19, Gates predicted: "We realize that the software age has arrived, and we have enough insight into the long-term potential of chips. What does this mean? Instead of seizing the opportunity, I will finish my Harvard studies, and the software industry will never wait for me. "

However, Gates' business practices are often criticized, one of which is the source of MS-DOS. In the late 197s, IBM was planning to enter the personal computer market, and in 1981, it officially launched the IBM personal computer (PC). IBM needs to provide