Yo-Yo Ma
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a kind of lightness to your step. It turns it into something that titillates someone else's imagination to say, oh yeah, I can dance to that. As Mark Morris Dance Group choreographed a whole suite to this music to dancers who then created a dance for this bourree. Does that make sense?
Let's avoid that. I won't retune, but I'll play you this beginning. So this is the very first piece of music I learned as a four-year-old. piano plays may have heard this before. And as a four year old, I learned it. And what was interesting for a beginning cellist, if you look at this. I just use one finger and it's the same pattern twice over.
Let's avoid that. I won't retune, but I'll play you this beginning. So this is the very first piece of music I learned as a four-year-old. piano plays may have heard this before. And as a four year old, I learned it. And what was interesting for a beginning cellist, if you look at this. I just use one finger and it's the same pattern twice over.
Let's avoid that. I won't retune, but I'll play you this beginning. So this is the very first piece of music I learned as a four-year-old. piano plays may have heard this before. And as a four year old, I learned it. And what was interesting for a beginning cellist, if you look at this. I just use one finger and it's the same pattern twice over.
is about patterns, the same or different. We are constantly oscillating between the same and different. Right? And so it was easy for a child to learn things that had patterns to it, and when it was different, it was interesting. Now, why is this beautiful? As a four-year-old, I learned it fairly easily. Kids absorb things as a sponge absorbs water really easily.
is about patterns, the same or different. We are constantly oscillating between the same and different. Right? And so it was easy for a child to learn things that had patterns to it, and when it was different, it was interesting. Now, why is this beautiful? As a four-year-old, I learned it fairly easily. Kids absorb things as a sponge absorbs water really easily.
is about patterns, the same or different. We are constantly oscillating between the same and different. Right? And so it was easy for a child to learn things that had patterns to it, and when it was different, it was interesting. Now, why is this beautiful? As a four-year-old, I learned it fairly easily. Kids absorb things as a sponge absorbs water really easily.
After nine years old, you don't pick up languages anymore. Naturally, you actually start to analyze things, you use your mind, and it's a different process of assimilation. So by the time I got to my 20s or 30s, this piece became hard. Because how do I play it? And what I discovered and what made it so beautiful for me is that whereas it was hard to start, but if I thought of an image of water,
After nine years old, you don't pick up languages anymore. Naturally, you actually start to analyze things, you use your mind, and it's a different process of assimilation. So by the time I got to my 20s or 30s, this piece became hard. Because how do I play it? And what I discovered and what made it so beautiful for me is that whereas it was hard to start, but if I thought of an image of water,
After nine years old, you don't pick up languages anymore. Naturally, you actually start to analyze things, you use your mind, and it's a different process of assimilation. So by the time I got to my 20s or 30s, this piece became hard. Because how do I play it? And what I discovered and what made it so beautiful for me is that whereas it was hard to start, but if I thought of an image of water,
of a brook or a river. And if I thought that the piece started before I began, and I just joined the water. You know what it is about a river? It's never the same river, but you always call it the same river, but the water's never the same. So if I think of a water element, here's what it ends up sounding like.
of a brook or a river. And if I thought that the piece started before I began, and I just joined the water. You know what it is about a river? It's never the same river, but you always call it the same river, but the water's never the same. So if I think of a water element, here's what it ends up sounding like.
of a brook or a river. And if I thought that the piece started before I began, and I just joined the water. You know what it is about a river? It's never the same river, but you always call it the same river, but the water's never the same. So if I think of a water element, here's what it ends up sounding like.
You actually get to code infinite variety.