1955, October 7 – BIRTH OF YO YO MA
Cellist (Libra) – born in Paris to Chinese parents, his mother was a singer and his father a professor of music…the family moved to New York City when he was five years old…at the age of 4 , he began studying violin and in time a child prodigy emerged…he began performing at the age of 5 and by the age of 7 he had performed for presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy…he studied at the Julliard School of Music and the universitys of Columbia and Harvard…..
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Ma’s primary performance cello nicknamed Petunia, was built by Domenico Montagna in 1733…it was once accidentally lost in a taxicab in New York City and later, miraculously recovered undamaged…in 1977, he married his long-time girlfriend Jill Hornor, a German language professor…in 1997 he released, to rave reviews, “Soul of the Tango” an LP interpreting Astor Piazzolla’s music…one critic
called it “the perfect combination of two eclectic geniuses”
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- CLICK HERE – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCgm1onKI0A to see Yo Yo Ma play Libertango (from his album “Soul of Tango”) in the film “The Tango Lesson”
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