11.20.08

Yo-Yo Ma: Passion, People & Music

Posted in An Intimate Tour Through The Music of Yo-Yo Ma at 9:19 am by Masterworks Podmaster

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Yo-Yo Ma & Friends - On this episode, Yo-Yo talks about his passion, people and music.


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  1. yoyoloveT said,

    November 25, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    So, I love your music, ways of talking and things you talk about means “I love Yo-Yo Ma”, doesn’t it??

    Love,
    T.

  2. Phenomenology: music vs. book « Interaction Culture: The Class Blog said,

    November 25, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    [...] Yo-Yo Ma’s talk about his passion, people & music “[…] that my great passion in my life is not about doing anything but it’s actually people, over and over again figuring out where people come from, what they do, why they do it, and who they are, how they view themselves, and how others view them. And through that, music finally makes a lot of sense to me because I could then look at any music. […] Music is expression of people. Always […]” “I always think music is some form of expression that does travel through time and space but using energy. Sound is something that is a form of energy. It is energy that moves through air molecular. Therefore, we hear the sound. We interpret the sound. I think that the sound that humans make inevitably is reflection of their both inner thinking patterns, feeling patterns, thought patterns, as well as their physical patterns. […] I think that sound as expressed by people will inevitably reveal internal working of people.” “I think music does somehow express the inner working, the inner life of human being the way speech does, the way writing. If you read someone’s letters from three hundred years ago, you know the letter between John and Abigail Adam, you can really feel who they are as people. I think music is no difference. If someone wrote something in Philadelphia in 1700, you get a sense of who they are and what their influences were and deeply what they are trying to say. And I think that’s it’s by discerning what the patterns are in they choose and how they use melody, how they use different forms of rhythm and harmony. You get a sense of what the priority are and those priorities will reveal what their inner life priorities also are. ” [...]

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