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In this performance video from From the Top at Carnegie Hall, cellist and volleyball player Jonah Ellsworth from Cambridge, Massachusetts, accompanied by host Christopher O'Riley, performs Variations on One String on a Theme of Rossini, by Niccolo Pa...ganini. Watch as Jonah plays the entire song on one string, producing a wide variety of sounds. (05:30)
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February 4, 2011 at 10:58 PM
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Ages: 9 - 18
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Yo-Yo Ma
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This Brain Pop video discusses the life of Yo-Yo Ma. Some key terms include cello, Chinese-American, orchestra, symphony, child prodigy, Carnegy Hall, and The Silk Road Project. (4:28)
January 21, 2011 at 03:07 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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This is a live performance of Dvorak's Cello Concerto on stage by Yo-Yo Ma and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The video begins with some background on Dvorak. This Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 by Antonín Dvořák was the composer's last ...solo concerto, and was written in 1894–1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan.
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July 11, 2009 at 06:40 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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This concerto was composed in 1919 and is considered to be a conersone of cello repetoire. This is a live 1997 performance of Yo-Yo Ma with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on stage at Carnegie Hall. Their is a brief, narrated intr...oduction at the beginning.
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July 11, 2009 at 06:39 PM
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Ages: 9 - 18
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In this video excerpt, celebrating the composer's 150th birthday, Yo-Yo Ma plays the ending of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme at the Gala in Leningrad (in 1990). Watch for Yo-Yo Ma's wink at the conductor, about 1:17 into the clip. (2:27...)
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April 25, 2010 at 12:22 PM
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Ages: 11 - 18
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Nathaniel Ayers is particularly fond of composer Ernst Bloch. This cello soloist, accompanied by piano, performs the Prayer, Supplication and Jewish Song from Bloch's "Jewish Life." Wassily Gerassimez plays the cello, accompanied by Nicolai Gerassi...mez.
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April 17, 2010 at 04:54 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Yo-Yo Ma solos with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, playing Dvorak's Cello Concerto in b minor opus 104. The piece is one of Nathaniel Ayers' favorites.
April 17, 2010 at 04:50 PM
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