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...professor talks an ornate game. But he could use a good personnel consultant. For his ill-chosen crew consists of Gawain MacSam (Marlon Wayans), a symphonist of obscenities; a silent, deadly, chain-smoking Vietnamese convenience-store operator (Tzi Ma); a football-playing moron (Ryan Hurst); and, best of all, Garth Pancake (J.K. Simmons), a militant liberal, serenely overconfident of his skill with powder and fuses and, alas, afflicted by irritable-bowel syndrome, which kicks in at inopportune moments. Oh, almost forgot to mention this--most of them have hair-trigger tempers, which do not aid them in the swift completion...
...Ma has been a mentor for young musicians and developed the Silk Road project, a program that encourages international understanding through music, according to Schorr...
Trained as a classical cellist, Ma has sought to master his craft throughout his career even as he branched out into new realms of musical expression. He has worked with instruments and traditions from across the globe...
...process of choosing Ma for the Harvard Arts Medal began more than a year ago. The Harvard Arts Medal committee is comprised of faculty, members of the Board of Overseers, administrators and students. It was presented with a long list of potential honorees from the substantials ranks of artistically brilliant Harvard alumni...
...Ma took up the cello at the age of four and attended the Juilliard School before coming to Harvard. He could not be reached for comment yesterday...