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

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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.


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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, https://www.yo-yoma.com/.

“Bach’s six cello suites have been my constant musical companions. For almost six decades, they have given me sustenance, comfort, and joy during times of stress, celebration, and loss. What power does this music possess that even today, after three hundred years, they continue to help us navigate our search for meaning and purpose?”

—Yo-Yo Ma, https://www.yo-yoma.com/.

Culture makes us human. It is how we create trust, wonder, faith, belonging. Culture helps us care for one another and for the world we share. It reminds us that nature is part of our humanity and that it contains an imagination greater than our own.

—Yo-Yo Ma, Our Common Nature, https://www.yo-yoma.com/our-common-nature/.

Let us use culture to remember that we are part of nature; that the survival of the earth cannot be separated from the health of society; and that to love each other is to love our planet.

—Yo-Yo Ma, Our Common Nature, https://www.yo-yoma.com/our-common-nature/.

Resources

  • Yo-Yo Ma, A Globally-Sourced Prélude: the Prélude from Bach’s first cello suite
  • Yo-Yo Ma: "Bach feels everybody's pain, and everybody's joy" | Classic FM

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