Article updated August 15, 2019 by Dave Read Yo-Yo Ma performed Bach’s Six Cello Suites Aug. 11 at Tanglewood, one of 36 venues on six continents during his Bach Project, an initiative designed to “…bind us together as one world, and guide us to political and economic decisions that benefit the entire species.” When we […]
Continue reading Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s Six Cello Suites at TanglewoodYo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood
Yo-Yo Ma is a golden thread in the Tanglewood tapestry. That's a nice sentence of praise, but it's a bad metaphor, because Yo-Yo Ma is more versatile than gold. In my twenty years on the Tanglewood beat, he has been at the heart of a range of programs so diverse that it boggles the mind. From assembling a mini-festival in celebration of Brazilian music, to accompanying James Taylor on various occassions, to his ground-breaking ensembles The Silk Road Project and the Goat Rodeo, Yo-Yo Ma is the quintessential artist - ever searching, ever growing.
Yo-Yo Ma leads master class at Tanglewood
Article updated August 1, 2019 by Dave Read Sometimes life in the Berkshires will feel like an embarrassment of riches, such as when you can attend a master class led by Yo-Yo Ma, as brilliant as any artist at work today, held in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, a structure and a setting as aesthetically pleasing […]
Continue reading Yo-Yo Ma leads master class at TanglewoodJT and Yo-Yo on the porch
Article updated July 15, 2019 by Dave Read This video of James Taylor being accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma on Sweet Baby James, recorded Sept. 15, 2008 on the porch of the Red Lion Inn at Stockbridge, is blowing up the Internet – at least my little piece of it! Hotels in the Berkshires Find hotels […]
Continue reading JT and Yo-Yo on the porchSilk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood
Aug. 7, 2016 Tanglewood concert review by Dave Read The Silk Road Ensemble, with Yo-Yo Ma, used the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood like a high school during their Aug. 7, 2016 performance, presenting both lessons in social studies and the senior assembly. Eighteen years since being co-founded by Yo-yo Ma at Ozawa Hall, the […]
Continue reading Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma at TanglewoodYo Yo Ma’s Goat Rodeo Show at Tanglewood
August 15, 2013 performance by Dave Read If Tanglewood were simply Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its Tanglewood Music Center and eight or nine weeks of classical music performed by the BSO and their various guest soloists and conductors, we Berkshires locals would have plenty to be grateful for. But it is […]
Continue reading Yo Yo Ma’s Goat Rodeo Show at TanglewoodYo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble June 24, 2012 concert review
Review of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble concert at Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, June 24, 2012; 17 piece ensemble includes Galician bagpiper Christina Pato and Chinese sheng player Wu Tong.
Continue reading Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble June 24, 2012 concert reviewPBS film of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood
PBS film of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood Article by Dave Conlin Read. The June 24, 2012 concert by Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood was great fun, as we reported at the time. We haven’t seen the DVD from the show, but […]
Continue reading PBS film of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at TanglewoodYo Yo Ma tops Tanglewood program
Report of August 1, 2010 perfromance by Dave Conlin Read. The composition of a Tanglewood program itself sometimes enhances the enjoyment of the various compositions that comprise a program; a transcending element to go along with the enjoyment of the program as performed by the musicians. On paper, this program at Tanglewood was sure to […]
Continue reading Yo Yo Ma tops Tanglewood programJames Taylor and Yo Yo Ma video – Sweet Baby James
James Taylor and Yo Yo Ma perform Sweet Baby James at the Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, MA for ABC TV’s Good Morning America broadcast in the Berkshires, Sept. 15, 2008.
Continue reading James Taylor and Yo Yo Ma video – Sweet Baby JamesTan Dun’s The Map, with Yo Yo Ma at Tanglewood
August 7, 2004 performance by Dave Read Among the many memorable images from this Tanglewood program was this tableau: a Paris-born Chinese cellist and a Siberian violinist trading jazzy licks with the video-taped image of a Chinese leaf blower. Coming during the second movement of Tan Dun’s nine-part composition The Map, Concerto for Cello, Video, […]
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