Word: changefulness
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...Lynn W. Chang ’75, a violinist with the Boston Chamber Music Society and lifelong friend of Ma, says that it is Ma’s ability to connect with the audience that makes him such a successful performer...
...There is a certain personality and persona in his playing—he is just a wonderful communicator,” Chang says. “There are many who play their instruments well on stage, but there are a select few who are able to go beyond that—who have a certain charisma that goes over the footlights—that makes the audience fall in love with them...
...just so shy at the beginning,” Chang remembers...
...Chang says that before Harvard, Ma’s life was intensely focused on his family and his cello. Born in Paris to Chinese parents, he took up the cello at the age of four (because, Ma has said, he was attracted to its large size). He was performing in Carnegie Hall by the time he was nine and he was soon studying with Leonard Rose at Julliard’s pre-college program...
...family was very Chinese and conservative,” Chang says. “The father had a pretty tight grip on the family. The father insisted that Yo-Yo do his practicing, learn his Chinese and lead a very disciplined life...