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WORLDS GREATEST LIVING CELLIST

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EXANDER M SMITH Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:28:45 AM ET


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Page 2Yo Yo Ma plays his Luis and

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CONTENTS

....................................................................................Political, Social, and Economic Chart................................................................................................................................Summary

..................................................................................................................................Timeline..........................................................................................................Embedded Technology

Citations/Bibliography.............................................................................................................

"I think that in today's world no one grows up listening to one music. Part of being alive in this world is knowing

you are and how you fit in the rest of the world. Im certainly interested in what the rest of the world thinks and fee

and how they want to express themselves in sound." Yo-Yo Ma

"Every time I open a newspaper, I am reminded that we live in a world where we can no longer afford not to know

neighbors." Yo-Yo Ma



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Yo Yo Ma (right)

performs at the

inauguration

ceremony of

President Barack

Obama.

Social, Economic, and Political Chart

SOCIAL ECONOMIC POLITICAL

1.Strongly committed to educationalprograms that bring young audiencesinto the world of music. (Yo-Yo MasWebsite)

1.Has performed at the WorldEconomic Forum in 2008, which washeld in Switzerland. (Yo-Yo MasWebsite)

1.Yo Yo Ma was named PeaceAmbassador to the United Nations 2006 by the Secretary Kofi Annan.(Yo-Yo Mas Website)

2.Recently released a new CD"Songs of Joy and Peace", with the

purpose of celebrating universal andinternational hopes, dreams and goodcheer of holidays as they arecelebrated in other cultures. (Yo-YoMas Website)

2. Regularly performs at charityevents to raise money for community

fundraisers and others in need. (Yo-Yo Mas Website)

2. Founded the Silk Road Project, tmission of which was to bring

together musicians from manydiverse countries. (Yo-Yo MasWebsite)

3.Conducts masterclasses andperformances to connect music toyoung musicians so that music andcreativity will be a part of their livesfrom a young age. (Yo-Yo Mas

Website)

3.Yo-Yo Ma has recorded over 75CD's, 15 of which have wonGrammy awards. (Yo-Yo MasWebsite)

3.Appointed by Barack Obama toserve on the President's Committeeof Arts and Humanities. (Yo-Yo MaWebsite)

4.Part of Ma's worldwide appeal ishis ability to communicate with theaudience warmly and in an engagingmanner when he is performing. (Yo-Yo Mas Website)

4.He collaborated with JohnWilliams on the original score for the2005 filmMemoirs of a Geisha.(Yo-Yo Mas Website)

4.Appointed a CultureConnectAmbassador by the U.S. Departmenof State, which allowed him to meeand teach students in other countrie(Yo-Yo Mas Website)

5. Attended Harvard University toobtain a degree in Humanities,because he felt the diversity thereopened up possibilities not available

at a music conservatory. (Yo-YoMas Website)

5. One of his cello's is worth $2.5million dollars (he once left it in theback of a taxicab in New York City,but later recovered it undamaged).

5.Performed at the Inauguration ofPresident Barack Obama in January2009. (Yo-Yo Mas Website)

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Summary of AccomplishmentsMusic In The Eyes of Yo-Yo Ma:

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole,flows from heaven to the soul. Yo-Yo Ma, a French-born American cellist, brought this generic definition of musito whole new level. His frequent collaborations with musicians and artists from other genres and media

reinvigorated classical music and expanded its audience. Ma believes that music is a way to express oneself,finding their identity in a very diverse world, I think that in todays world no one grows up listening to one musiPart of being alive in this world is knowing who you are and how you fit in the rest of the world. Im certainlyinterested in what the rest of the world thinks and feels and how they want to express themselves in sound.(TheSilk Road Project)

Early Life: The Birth of a Musical Prodigy

Yo-Yo Ma was considered a musical prodigy, in other words, a musical genius. His father, Hiao-Tsuin Ma,recognized his sons talent and started him immediately on his musical career as a cellist. Yo-Yo was expected tomemorize two measures of the Six Bach Suites for the Unaccompanied Cello each day.(Worth 9) Little did heknow that the music he was memorizing would later win him a Grammy Award. Ma made his first debut in the

prestigious Carnegie Hall in 1971, performing the Bach suites.(Worth 37) In 1985, he won his first Grammy awarfrom his recordings of the Six Unaccompanied Bach Cello Suites, which have the reputation as one of the mostdifficult, but beautiful pieces of music ever composed for the cello. In total, Yo-Yo Ma has won sixteen totalGrammy Awards, his latest being from his new album, songs for peace and joy. Out of 75 of his albums, 15 ofthem are Grammy Award Winners.

Transformation of Music:

Yo-Yo Ma transformed music and brought music to a completely new level that was not yet discovered. Ma'sversatility among music genres and his large repertoire separate him from many other cellists. Yo-Yo Ma broughtmusic to a new level by being able to express the emotions and feelings that the composer was trying to send outthrough the music being performed. From the first movement of suite no. 1 of the Bach suites, Yo-Yo Ma describe

the prelude to open "like light becoming stronger," and the he feels that he is out in nature while playing it.(Worth9) Suite No. 3 is considered "the most popular of all," according to David Blum. Ma interprets this suite to be"noble and exuberant." Suite No. 4, for Ma, is " the most profound of all the suites.(Worth 11) It expresses thesadness felt be the composer. In conclusion of the Six Suites for Cello composed by Bach, Suite No. 6 "is exaltedand celebrates the glory of life."(Worth 11) When Yo-Yo Ma performs, he is absorbed into the music he is playingand through his body language, he is able to vividly portray the emotions of the song being performed.

The Silk Road Project and Yo-Yo Ma's Grand Goal as a Musician

Notified as a child prodigy, Yo-Yo Ma made a shocking decision to expand his education at Harvard University,majoring in humanities. After graduating Harvard University in 1976, Ma felt the growing desire to unite culturesall over the world.(The Silk Road Project) By 1998, Yo-Yo Ma established the Silk Road Project to promote his

goal of uniting cultures over the world, Every time I open a newspaper, I am reminded that we live in a worldwhere we can no longer afford not to know our neighbors. He wanted to expand the exploration of music asmeans of communication as a vessel for the migrations of ideas across a range of cultures throughout the world,and through the Silk Road Project, he was able to accomplish his goal.(The Silk Road Project)

To Conclude:

Yo-Yo Ma is respected as one of the finest cellists all over the world. His collaborations with other musiciansenabled him to reinvigorate classical music and expand its audience greatly. Ma acknowledges that havingversatility within foreign music genres make a musician that much better. Not only was Yo-Yo Ma a veryaccomplished cellist through his many Grammy Awards, he also was a man he sought to unify different culturestogether. Through the Silk Road Project, Yo-Yo Ma was able to do so, gathering musicians all over the world to

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Timeline and Citations/Bibliography

Bibliography/Citations

Worth, Richard. Yo-Yo Ma. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2007. Print.

The Silk Road Project Inc. "Yo-Yo Ma." The Silkroad Project. N.p., 2010. Web. 28Feb. 2010. .

The Silkroad Project Inc. "The Silk Road Project: Mission and Vision." The SilkRoad Project. N.p., 2010. Web. 27 Feb. 2010.

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Audio Source: Ma, Yo-Yo. "Suite No. 3 for Violoncello Solo in C Major BWV 1009."Bach: TheCello Suites. Sony BMG Music Entertainment, 1997. MP3 file.

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