Monday Music: A Very Young Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma at age seven, plays the first movement of Concertino No. 3 by Jean-Baptiste Bréval. He is accompanied by his eleven-year-old sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma. I love the scope of Leonard Bernstein's international vision as he introduces Yo-Yo Ma for the first time to a national audience.

From the YouTube site:
The New York Times reported that on November 29, 1962, a benefit concert called "The American Pageant of the Arts" was to be held with "a cast of 100, including President and Mrs. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leonard Bernstein (as master of ceremonies), Pablo Casals, Marian Anderson, Van Cliburn, Robert Frost, Fredric March, Benny Goodman, Bob Newhart and a 7-year-old Chinese cellist called Yo-yo Ma, who was brought to the program's attention by Casals."

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Monday Music: Here and Heaven

From The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Yo-Yo Ma's bluegrass-inspired recordings): musicians Aoife O'Donovan, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, and Yo-Yo Ma performing "Here and Heaven." This is another piece that I heard first at Penny Nash's Penelopepiscopalblog.

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