Word: morrision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Is this what it means to be an elite classical musician in the age of Clinton? One has a hard time picturing Mstislav Rostropovich pulling off his pants in front of reporters. Nor, for that matter, can one picture Pablo Casals recording albums with jazz singers or Texas fiddlers or...
A child prodigy, Ma never toed the expected line, cutting class regularly, pounding brews at music camp and leaving his cello in the rain, passing up the conservatory for a liberal-arts education at Columbia and then dropping out without telling his parents (he later graduated from Harvard). Now 42...
The impetus for the new recordings and the series of films, collectively titled Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, came in the early '90s, when Ma got to musing about the extramusical implications of Bach's work. With the exception of the collaboration with Egoyan on the fourth suite--a...
But even the weaker films are fascinating for what they reveal about the processes of making interpretive art. As Ma says during a discussion with Morris, "I think that what this music is attempting to describe is something that can take all of the imagination of lots of people put...
Lamar Alexander, Muhammad Ali, Terry Anderson, Lauren Bacall, F. Lee Bailey, Anne Bancroft, Christiaan Barnard, Bill Bradley, William Bratton, Tom Brokaw, Donald Budge, Joseph Califano, Steve Case, Dick Cavett, Carol Channing, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Costner, Walter Cronkite, Tom Cruise, Patricia Nixon Cox, Michael Deaver, Michael E...