Nicola’s Love for Her Violin
Can love between partners with a 237-year age gap (差距) lead to the perfect match (绝配)? Nicola Benedetti thinks so. The 18-year-old
36 and her “partner, a 255-year-old Italian violin,
37 to China for the first time last weekend. She
38 in Beijing on September 15 and also performed in Hangzhou and Shanghai. Nicola is from Scotland and
39 playing the violin when she was four years old.
40 , it was not something her parents
41 her do. She went with her sister to violin lessons and
42 it and improved very quickly.
“There are so many different things I am fond of about the
43 ,” she said. “I can’t really
44 it but I love giving live performances, I like the feeling of playing and communicating with the
45 . I love the feeling of the violin under my chin (下巴).”
However, playing violin six hours a day is not a/an
46 job. “I usually
47 in an upstairs bedroom when I’m at home.” she said. “But sometimes, when it’s 48 outside, it can be upset. The house is right on the
49 and I can see others having fun
50 I’m on my own.”
Although practising is sometimes lonely, Nicola
51 felt she was lucky. “You can’t have
52 . I am really lucky to do what I love doing,” she said. Her
53 paid off (终有回报). Nicola won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2004 at 16.
54 her performing and recording activities, Nicola is a/an
55 of UNICEF (联合国儿童基金会). She said that she would travel to Lesotho in southern Africa at the end of this year to help poor kids there.
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