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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo performs Bach and shares insight that sets the tone for the class. While he once reached for perfection, it did not fulfill him. This realization changed his trajectory; he began focusing on human connection instead of human perfection.

1. Meet Your Instructor: Yo-Yo Ma

Meet Your Instructor: Yo-Yo Ma

Sound is energy. It sparks ideas and memories. This lesson explores the role of music and how it connects to humanity. Yo-Yo shares his philosophy and his belief that your interpretation of music is as unique as your fingerprint.

2. What Is Music For?

What Is Music For?

Yo-Yo highlights the importance of three core values in music and ultimately everything we do: seeking truth, building trust, and being of service. This lesson reminds us to bring these intentions and awareness into everything we do.

3. Finding Connection and Common Purpose

Finding Connection and Common Purpose

Creatives are the scouts for society. Yo-Yo emphasizes the need to think about the bigger picture to expand yourself as an artist. Learn how to break the boundaries of tradition and blend the old with the new.

4. Developing Creativity

Developing Creativity

Yo-Yo performs J.S. Bach’s Suite no. 5, "Sarabande", from the depth of his own human connection and expression.

5. Performance: Bach, Suite no. 5, "Sarabande"

Performance: Bach, Suite no. 5, "Sarabande"

Yo-Yo dives into the impact of live performance and how to prepare yourself for a performance, whether you are a musician or not.

6. Expressing Ourselves to Make an Impact

Expressing Ourselves to Make an Impact

In a collaboration with two other cellists, Titi Ayangade and Ethan Philbrick, Yo-Yo presents the practices and intentions behind everything he has shared so far. They perform and express their interpretations of Bach’s Suite no. 3, "Sarabande".

7. Case Study: Balancing Structure and Emotion

Case Study: Balancing Structure and Emotion

This lesson focuses on Titi’s performance. The collaborators discuss how Titi personalizes the piece with her unique emotional imagination, and how conscious and subconscious communication can be accessed through music.

8. Case Study: Activating Conscious and Subconscious Expression

Case Study: Activating Conscious and Subconscious Expression

This lesson highlights how our senses are connected to our creative imaginations and their essential role in our ability to express ourselves. Both Titi and Ethan perform “The Swan” and discuss their emotional imagination.

9. Making Your Head, Heart, and Hands Work Together

Making Your Head, Heart, and Hands Work Together

Yo-Yo, Titi, and Ethan collaborate through performance and create an original piece of music. They discuss the key elements of a successful collaboration and how nonverbal communication guides us through the improvisational process.

10. Adding Depth to Collaboration

Adding Depth to Collaboration

Highlighting the importance of artists and scientists, Yo-Yo uses this lesson to articulate the interconnectedness of art, science, and philosophy.

11. Bridging Arts and Sciences

Bridging Arts and Sciences

Yo-Yo shares parting advice, reminding us that we are the creators of our narratives. At all times, we have the power of choice: “...the one thing you can always change is your attitude towards life.”

12. You Are Powerful

You Are Powerful

Yo-Yo Ma Teaches Music and Connection

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