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November 16, 25 7:45 China Business News

He received a doctorate in anthropology from Harvard University. He was born in France and lived in the United States, but he always insisted on using Chinese when interviewed by China reporters. He has won 14 Grammy Awards, but he has never won one. Last year, he was selected as "the sexiest classical musician" by People magazine in the United States-he is the cellist Yo Yo Ma who is famous in the international music world

Our reporter Wu Dan sent it from Shanghai

His signature is not in English Yo-YoMa, but in Chinese.

He was born in France and lives in the United States, but every time he goes to China, he insists on speaking Mandarin with difficulty. When he doesn't understand or can't express himself, he always looks around with a smile and finds someone to answer for him. He said: "I don't have many opportunities to speak Chinese, but I like listening. It's a wonderful feeling."

Yo-Yo Ma, a famous cellist who just turned 5, has come to Shanghai again. Although this is his third concert in Shanghai, the audience's enthusiasm remains undiminished.

On the evening of November 13th, the Shanghai Concert Hall was full of people. A quarter of an hour before the recital, the last row on the first floor was already crowded with spectators holding standing tickets. That night, Yo-Yo Ma presented a cello suite accompanied by Bach and Kubinashi, which was recognized as "an unsurpassed interpretation after casals". He sat in the center of the stage, playing the strings freely and relaxed, and the sound of the piano filled the audience. That night, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and returned to the field three times, smiling brightly and bowing deeply in the face of the tide of applause.

On the evening of 14th, Yo-Yo Ma cooperated with Singapore conductor Shuilan to bring Schumann's only cello concerto at Shanghai Grand Theatre, and the grand occasion remained the same.

Yo-Yo Ma said that he likes Shanghai very much. But he came and went in a hurry several times before, only this time he stayed for three days. Before the two concerts, Yo-Yo Ma also held a master music class to expose people to the more authentic side of the most outstanding cellist of our time.

Music starts with breathing

"You have to breathe like this ... right. Slow down a little, your shoulders hang down and your arms relax. "

On the afternoon of November 12th, Yo-Yo Ma held the students' shoulders in the small theater of Shanghai Grand Theatre, patiently adjusting others' breathing like teaching yoga.

this master class is also full of audiences. The fans paid close attention to his words and deeds, but he jumped up and down in front of the stage like an urchin, holding up the microphone and asking the students, "What did you feel just now?" "Tell me the scene in your mind? Where is the biggest change in your mood? " The children nervously responded to their feelings: Schumann's music is like a continuous mountain, like a cliff, and sometimes like a volcanic eruption.

He laughed heartily. "Like you, when I play the piano, I always have a scene in my mind. But different people fantasize about different scenes at different times. What the performer has to do is to enrich his imagination and then tell the audience the pictures you see. This is the most important thing. "

He asked the students to slow down the speed of playing the piano and count the beats over and over again: "Music is not just sound, it is a person's heart and personality. You have to slow down to find the personality of music in the beat, pay attention to every note, tighten every bar, and then expand, which is your own personality. "

The student was still pulling, and suddenly he lay down on the ground in a suit and said to the student, "That's it, I want to hear you pull it out so comfortably." He found that the students had little communication with the piano players when playing the concerto, so he ran to the corner and dragged out the heavy piano, asking the students to make eye contact with the piano teacher.

In the face of the master and many audiences, the fledgling children are inevitably nervous. After playing a song, a boy shyly asked Yo-Yo Ma how to keep normal under the gathering of lights and eyes. "Up to now, I am often nervous!" Yo-Yo Ma opened his eyes wide for this frank question, patted the boy on the shoulder happily and helped him ask the audience below how to deal with nervousness. After getting the neat answer of "take a deep breath", Yo-Yo Ma tried with the boy in front of the stage. Then he opened his suit and held the cello in his chest-the huge piano seemed to be a part of his body. With the rapid movement of his left finger and the light bow of his right hand, pure Bach music flowed out. All the phonology reflects his heart.

"composers always tell their stories in music, and it is our task as performers to find these stories and tell them to the audience. How wonderful it is for us to tell the stories of so many composers all over the world! Therefore, we must be patient and speak slowly, and the audience will listen patiently. " Yo-Yo Ma put away his bow and leaned back casually and said, "The playing of every note begins with our breathing."

At the concert the next day, when Yo-Yo Ma leaned back comfortably and lifted his bow, his breath was closely linked with the music and the audience, leading everyone into his world and listening to his stories about Bach and Schumann.

emotional and sexy classical musician

What is Yo-Yo Ma like outside of music? "Kindness" and "humor" have been recognized by People, but people magazine in the United States rated him as "the sexiest classical musician".

In the face of this evaluation, Yo-Yo Ma and his family felt that "this is ridiculous". But through his every expression at the concert scene, or the audience's obsessed expression, you will find that he is both emotional and sexy at this time.

He has won 15 Grammy Awards, but he has never been to an award ceremony. He has a son and a daughter, but no one practices the piano. He thinks that what parents can do is to "give children tools and finally let them make their own decisions"-this kind of casualness may be like when he took the initiative to transfer to Harvard University to study anthropology and get a doctorate before graduating from Julia Conservatory of Music in the United States.

Talking about this experience, Yo-Yo Ma felt that it was the most wonderful thing he had ever done. "As performers, we usually start to learn the piano at an early age, and the whole life is immersed in music. When I arrived at Harvard, I was suddenly in different things. " At Harvard, Yo-Yo Ma and his friends talked about music without musical instruments, which made him feel happy.

Because of this, this internationally renowned cellist has not yet obtained a diploma from the Conservatory of Music. In the music industry, such masters can be found everywhere: karajan majored in painting and sculpture, the conductor Bohm holds a doctor of law, the famous Italian opera conductor Sinopoli holds a doctor of medicine in neurosurgery, and the violinist Mei Niuyin has never been to a conservatory of music ... but these people have brought rich and extended changes to music.

Ma Youyou said: "Literature, philosophy, history, natural science and other disciplines are the' background' of music, and understanding these disciplines is very helpful to music itself." He said that when he played the cello, he only put 5% of his energy into his left and right hands, and the rest of his energy was completely relaxed and unrestrained. "Skills are used to boldly create music space and cannot be limited by music scores and skills."

Yo-Yo Ma loves to travel. Every year, he always takes time off with his family. He said, "The customs of different countries always give me a lot of room for imagination." Music critics say that Yo-Yo Ma's music is not only auditory but also visual. He shows stories and scenery with rich facial expressions, and leads people into an infinitely wonderful visual and spiritual world with his superb performance.

Yo-Yo Ma is always humorous and smiling. On the covers of more than 5 records he has recorded, people always have that familiar smiling face. He said: "I like to laugh. Optimists always get things done, so I always encourage myself to do it."

Before coming to Shanghai, this world musician, who is over 5 years old, returned to his hometown of Ningbo for the first time, and said with emotion, "I never expected to visit and perform in my hometown in my lifetime, and I feel very happy." The local media described him as "almost jumping on the press conference platform".

When he sees every old friend in Shanghai, he always asks others with that familiar smile: "Why are you all younger than me?"

As for Bach cello suites, he squinted and showed his white teeth and said, "I have been practicing Bach's suite since I was 4 years old, and I have been playing it for 46 years now, but I still can't play it well." Such Yo Yo Ma is actually far less than 5 years old.

About Yo-Yo Ma

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Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris, France in 1955. His father, Ma Xiaojun, is a violinist and composer. He used to be a professor in the Music Department of Nanjing Central University and moved to Paris in the 194s. His mother Lu Yawen is a vocalist.

Yo-Yo Ma had his first cello lesson with his father when he was 4 years old, which marked the beginning of an extraordinary performance career. At the age of six, he gave his first recital at the University of Paris, which included a Bach unaccompanied suite. In 1962, after the music-loving Ma family moved to new york, USA, because of his unquestionable genius, Yo-Yo Ma entered Julia College and became a student of Leonard Ross. He didn't study in this school for long, and decided to transfer to Harvard University in order to get a degree and broaden his horizons. He successfully completed the transition from a prodigy's intuitive performance to a mature musician, and won the Avery Fisher Prize in 1978. Since 1983, he has cooperated with Sony for more than 5 albums, becoming a legend in the world-renowned music scene.

Music has no boundaries. Yo-Yo Ma's biggest goal is to turn music into a language of communication, cross different races in the world, and bring people closer together. To achieve this goal, outside the field of classical music, he devoted himself to the study of Chinese traditional musical instruments and the jungle music of Kalahari in Africa. In recent years, the "Silk Road" project he promoted embodies his attempt to be compatible with different cultures. He often attends White House banquets, and one of the three seats reserved for Chinese artists by the President of the United States must be Yo-Yo Ma. Yo-Yo Ma also stepped out of the world of music, devoted himself to Chinese affairs in the United States and devoted himself to cultural exchanges between China and the United States.

If you just describe Yo-Yo Ma as a "world-famous cellist", it must be monotonous. The person who plays the cello as if he were a part of his body, the person who always laughs with the piano and makes you feel really happy to be with music, and the person who makes traditional classical music carry the humanistic spirit of the times, always brings freshness and surprise to the world with his unusual vision and talent. (Ke Yi)