Music, like all of culture, helps us to understand our environment, each other, and ourselves.

Yo-Yo Ma

Music Helps Us to Understand

Topic: Creativity, Culture, & the Arts

Music, like all of culture, helps us to understand our environment, each other, and ourselves. Culture helps us to imagine a better future. Culture helps turn “them” into “us.” And these things have never been more important.

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma has won 18 Grammy Awards and is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the inaugural Fred Rogers Legacy Award. His newest album is Brahms: The Piano Trios, released with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos.

Yo-Yo Ma

Theme: The Musical Arts