"Compared with [J. S. Bach’s] six sonatas for violin without accompaniment, these violoncello solos are light and unpretending. Nevertheless, they are interesting, because they are Bach’s. The first ...

Seventieth birthdays are big deals. When Leonard Bernstein marked the milestone in 1988, the Boston Symphony threw him a three-day-long bash at Tanglewood that included a three-hour concert in the ...

When Yo-Yo Ma looks around his home state, he sees history everywhere. The celebrated cellist has called Massachusetts home — he owns homes in Cambridge and Tyringham — for the past 53 years, but Ma ...

Yo-Yo Ma was the picture of cello perfection on Thursday evening, Nov. 6 at Severance Music Center, performing with The Cleveland Orchestra as if for the thousandth time — or the first. Relaxed, head ...

A few hours after the “Hands Off” social justice protest ended in Santa Barbara and across the country on Saturday, globally acclaimed cellist Yo Yo Ma took the stage of the Arlington Theatre to ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. I hope you're enjoying your Thanksgiving. For the holiday, we're going to feature one of our favorite interviews of the year with Yo-Yo Ma. He brought his cello, ...

His best-known recordings are of the Bach Solo Cello Suites, which he's recorded three times - in 1983, 1997 and 2018. He's performed with orchestras around the world, but lots of people who pay no ...