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...rolls of the snare-drum take over in the Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Mahler describes in a correspondence the hero of this last movement: "Oh him fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled." Once the seven sceptres at Armageddon come out of the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony, the scythes they raise deliver a cruel final stroke...
...Ma's only weakness-if it is a weakness-is that his tone is relatively small...
...supremely elegant but lacks the sonorous grandeur that audiences have come to admire in a Piatigorsky or a Rostropovich. Some might attribute this to the French tradition of string playing, but it may also be due to a congenital curvature of Ma's spine. Complex surgery last spring corrected the condition...
That eclecticism helps to differentiate Ma from other prodigies. He likes to do calligraphy and play chess. He is reading Don Quixote. He brings the same sense of exploration to the cello repertoire: he has performed such oddities as the concerti of Dmitri Kabalevsky and Gerald Finzi, plus his own transcription of the Brahms D minor violin sonata...
...Ma is concertizing in Europe now, and top orchestras are signing him up well into the '80s. He remains an artist-in-residence at Harvard, where his wife Jill, 27, teaches German. Last fall they played host at an old-fashioned waltz party in Leverett House. Yo-Yo spent the evening sawing away at Strauss in the student orchestra...