05/19/2025
This is my professional page. The Piano Studio of Xiaobo Chen is not functioning on a full capacity due to health reasons. And, it has not been my intention to make this page a commercial one, as an advertisement for the purpose of recruiting students.
Before having an illustrious teaching career 😜, yours truly was a… pianist. Thinking about this line makes me want to laugh until I cry, as if conversing between one artistically-inclinded individual to another, as the vast of entities from the COM of UNT. Should one asks the other, “what are you, dear?” Well, I have to think rather hard and reply with a firm hand gesture, not as a “ Collaborative Artist” as such grace does not exist in me, but as a…pianist, as a ”I am a PIANIST with no last name.
Rather, all these meanderings, occurrences and interludes from this page are no more than the short sometimes and nearly unfinished-sounding Chopin preludes, quick to change, perfect for someone who might not have an impressive stretch of attention span. 😜
Speaking of the Chopin preludes, I am curious to know, if someone has indeed played all of them and has at least attempted to perform the whole set in the setting of a concert stage a few times, if that person (even) has a preference between the first 12 and the last? Is this a childish question to ask? I had made painful attempts to thread the whole set, as if a set of the five Harry Potter books into one long novel with little avail. I ended up wishing that I could walk away with just the first half or if I could make an artistic choice about the program, which preludes in the second half would I leave off on a concert stage, stunningly and fearlessly…? If I could walk away with just one half of the book, …the first half, always the first half. I might never be a well-adjusted and mature adult to come off from the other end of the book during this lifetime. What about you?
Anyhoo, what I mean to tell you is that, I do *manage* both of my personal and professional pages on a daily basis. I’d see notifications from both pages, one is much more significant than the other. From this page, curiously enough, what I have seen steadily is a notification which tells me how many new views I would have, sometimes on a daily basis. Occasionally, I’d get something from the Facebook statistics telling me that the “views of The Piano Studio of Xiaobo Chen has a sharp increase during the past week.”
As it was not the harvest seed I planted, it certainly isn’t my fruit to pick. I’d look at each and similar notification, wonder about the sources they come from. Sometimes I am incredulous, but sometimes, I am terrified… I mean I am terrifyingly flattered. It is, after all, a compliment, isn’t it?
The famed ballet dancer Suzan Ferrell once said,”when you are in your 20’s, you never worry about the future. I’d laugh and say ,’Well, I can just open a restaurant when I retire.’” So I wonder, does each and every business owner have a back-up plan, in a sense that should Plan A fail, there will be a solid Plan B burning on the back burner? Maybe my pot of the Chop Suey that has been burning all this time and time is as old as the fairy tale itself, this might be… quite literally, the only “Egg Fried Rice—-Makeaway”, if you get my gist? If so, would you say that that is quite a threat?
I’d say no. Its Beresh*t.
And this, is just on a slow day.
