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World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 will soon reemerge onto the world stage in a new capacity—this time working with the United Nations (U.N.) to promote cultural understanding, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan announced last Thursday...
...listened to the first movement of Mozart's Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos performed better on a spatial reasoning test that involved mentally unfolding a piece of paper. The study's main author, Frances Rauscher, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin who is also a cellist, went on to do a similar test using laboratory rats. They were exposed to the same piano sonata in utero and for two months after birth, and then let loose in a maze. There they navigated their way out far quicker than three other groups of rats, which had been...
...Many of the HRO members agree that the audience will be dazzled with Yuan’s musical talent. “He plays with great musicality and sensitivity but also with complete technical confidence and maturity,” says Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09, a cellist in the orchestra. Although “Rite of Spring” has become a familiar tune thanks to the score of Disney’s “Fantasia,” many people who attend the HRO concert on Saturday will hear Stravinsky’s original score...
...after having attained world fame as a concert cellist, Ma put that awareness into practice by establishing the Silk Road Project. Funded by private donors, the group, as their artistic mission statement puts it, “acts as an umbrella organization and common resource for a number of artistic, cultural and educational programs,” focus on the Silk Road of antiquity...
...sessions, the ensemble was also looking for new talent. Five musicians were selected to rehearse with the group and play with them at the Thursday night concert. One such musician was cellist Bong I. Koh ’08, who found the experience thrilling, especially due to Ma’s constant presence...