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...Ma??€™s playing is not the only source of his appeal. His projects are far from the stereotype of a tuxedo-clad classical musician playing stuffy music in a centuries-old symphony hall...
...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...
...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...
...first year at Harvard, Ma??€™s performances were mostly outside of school. He says that he probably did too much outside playing that year...
...Ma??€™s most famous projects is an extension of an anthropology course that he took his freshman year with Professor Irven DeVore. Fascinated by DeVore’s lectures about the Bushmen of Africa, in the late 1980s, Ma traveled to the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa to study and perform music with them...