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...program of Beethoven warhorses will feature the familiar/familial Harvard trio of Richard Kogan '77, piano; Lynn Chang, 75, violin; and Yo-Yo Ma '76, cello, on Friday night in Sanders. This weekend may be an endurance test for Ma who will perform three times in four days. Not that he sours with fatigue, but chances are that you will catch him at his freshest on Friday evening...
...look around now and see the same thing already happening in the Class of '76. Two weeks from next Wednesday, Yo Yo Ma will be sitting in Memorial Hall, writing an exam for Social Sciences 4, "Film and Anthropology," in the company of a few dozen of his classmates. On the other hand, last Sunday he was in Carnegie Hall, playing in a Brahms sextet before an audience of two thousand. Because Yo Yo already plays the cello better than almost anyone in the world, success is not going to bother him with struggling up through the ranks, trying...
...some ways, Yo Yo's success is tangential to the real core of things here--it's hard to imagine, for example, that anything he writes in his Film and Anthropology blue book will much matter to him. That seems to be true of many people who find instant success outside Harvard's portals. Shep Messing may be an extreme example. By senior year, Shep says, he was arriving at Harvard every Monday and taking off again Thursday for a soccer game in Paris or Mexico. The summer after he graduated, he played in the Olympics, and, not long after...
...Yo Ho!--the good ship Harvard...
...freshmen now who have never heard of the group. Even Pancho Valdez is gone now, "sort of stolen back by the police this summer." Graduation looms for the Buttfucks, who say they have settled into "a quiet, domestic depravity." They are not particularly concerned about academic pressure, although Yo Mo Dobro Jo himself talks about a continuing sexual tension at Yale; "the sexual scene basically just isn't very cool," he says...