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...People couldn't believe what they were seeing," recalls Yo-Yo Ma, 25, but to him it was natural. He had a concert in Frankfurt that night, then a flight to a recording date in London, and while waiting for help, Ma decided to brush up on his Haydn. The dedication is typical for Ma; so is the hectic schedule (125 concerts this year) and the cheerful indifference to adversity. The silky beauty of his playing awes not only critics but other musicians. Isaac Stern, the virtuoso of violin and musical politics, says...
Some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them, and some have fathers like Hiao-tsiun Ma. A musical pedagogue who migrated from China to Paris in the '30s, Papa Ma started teaching Yo-Yo (Yo means friendship in Chinese) at the age of four, with a 1/16-size cello. Yo-Yo had to memorize two new measures for each daily lesson. "I had to play right," Yo-Yo recalls. "If I made a mistake, then I would have to play the passage right three consecutive times...
...five Yo-Yo played easily three of the Bach suites that lesser mortals have grown gray practicing. At seven he was brought to New York, where his father had been offered a job teaching at a school that Stern's children attended. Connections were made. Yo-Yo performed on the Johnny Carson show. He was taken to play for Pablo Casals. "What are you doing with this child?" demanded the patriarch. "You must let him go and play on the street...
Nobody gets to Carnegie Hall that way. Yo-Yo was taken to the Juilliard School and enrolled with Leonard Rose...
Saint-Saëns and Lalo: Cello Concertos (CBS Masterworks), The composers take a special taste, like orchids, but Yo-Yo Ma's playing is gorgeous...