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Title & Link
Yo-Yo Ma Explains How Music Can Close Social Distances | GQ
Publish Date
July 1, 2020
Interviewees
Yo-Yo Ma
Interviewers
Chris Gayomali
Publisher
GQ
Topics
Black Lives Matter
Challenges in playing music
Comfort and imagination
Imagination in envisioning the future
Mister Rogers
Music and its ability to close social distances
Perspective through reading and historical contexts
Practicing music
Quarantine performances
Revisiting Bach's cello suites
Values and trust
People Mentioned
Bach
Chris Thile
Edgar Meyer
Fred Rogers
James Shapiro
Jody
Kyham
Laurence Smith
Ma's father
Mozart
Satya Nadella
Shakespeare
Stuart Duncan
Toby Green
Toni Morrison
Works Mentioned
1599
A Fistful of Shells
Not Our First Goat Rodeo
Rivers of Power
Songs of Comfort
Places Mentioned
Cambridge
London
New York
Paris
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