Well, when I started to play, started piano, I dont really think much .... Actually, we had, I think, a gramophone, you had to do by your hands, kind of thing. And my mother liked it, like Deanna Durbin (laughs). I remember, (when I was) seventeen, eighteen, it had, the label part (of the record) had her picture. And I think it was probably the Traviata (sings). I think thats what it was. Something like that. But other than that, I didnt really hear, except my, as I said, my older sister loved opera. So when, when I was in the fourth grade, my sister was already in high school way up there..., no, graduated high school, actually. And ... Ryy is a very historical city for Chinese history, I think, because it had a walled city. But they didnt really have anything, there was a ... today it is the capital of Liaoning province, its called Shnyang, Mukden in Manchu), those days it was called Hten (in Japanese). That was a big city. And there was a Japanese opera company, called (after founder and tenor) Fujiwara Yoshie, Fujiwara Opera Company, (that) came there, and my sister wanted to see it. And, oh, that took ... my mother was traveling, I think she visited her relatives in Japan, so (she) wasnt there. My father had to ask to my school to get me off early because (so) I could take the train. It took a couple of hours to get there. And there was ... that was   La Traviata. I still kind of, sort of remember seeing (it). Anyway, maybe because of that I dont like opera (laughs).