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...should we take it? This law forbids the use of genetic information garnered in blood tests. But your genes affect your life in many ways. To avoid all the controversy around the concept of "intelligence," let's consider a slightly different concept called "talent." Is it unfair that Yo-Yo Ma can play cello better than I can? Or that people hire Frank Gehry instead of me when they want a beautiful building, or that Warren Buffett is a better stock picker? Sure, it's unfair. And it's unfair in precisely the same way the results of a genetic...
...Korea, Russia, and beyond. At the age of 11, Koh played with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra after winning a national competition for musicians. A year later, he won the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in St. Petersburg, Russia, which led to his playing with numerous European orchestras. Yo-Yo Ma ’76 also recognizes Koh’s talent and has taken him under his wing. Ma has acted as Koh’s mentor, assisting him when Koh decided to attend Harvard. Ma has supported Koh in his efforts to seek a joint concentration...
...some of the most talented musicians—not only at Harvard, but compared to music conservatories. They are top notch players.”This is high praise from an individual with a Cello Masters scholarship to Julliard who has worked with such famous musicians as Ethzak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma ’76, and Harvard professor Robert Levin. Yu says that she has had wonderful encounters with all of these artists, highlighting time spent with Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble as one of her most influential experiences.“Everyone was so friendly...
...Yo-Yo, who also teaches a class on lyrics at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in Los Angeles, recounted an instance in which she asked her students to write without mentioning partying, drinking, bad relationships, “bling bling, or how fly they were.” On the day that the assignment was due, no one had written anything, because they claimed that they didn’t know what to write...
...They just had to be creative, to come up with a story,” Yo-Yo says. “That was so hard. Back in the day, that’s all hip-hop was, was storytelling...