It also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma.

* 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist

* October 7 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-born Chinese cellist

In 2012, Simon was awarded the Polar Music Prize ( shared with Yo-Yo Ma ).

He performed a special arrangement of " Fragile " with Yo-Yo Ma and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, US.

One instrument, the cello played by Yo-Yo Ma, plays through much of the piece.

Notable artists and companies who have performed at SOPAC include Paquito D ' Rivera, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Olympia Dukakis, Richie Havens, Yo-Yo Ma, James Marsters, Eddie Palmieri, Madeleine Peyroux, Paula Poundstone, Anoushka Shankar, Phoebe Snow, Angie Stone, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Dionne Warwick, and Nancy Wilson.

* 1998 Yo-Yo Ma Premieres – Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse ( Sony Classical 66299 )

* 1998 Yo-Yo Ma Premieres – Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse ( Sony Classical 66299 )

* Yo-Yo Ma in Conversation from WGBH Radio Boston

* Yo-Yo Ma Interview on Time. com, October 2008

* Yo-Yo Ma Podcast Series produced by Sony BMG Masterworks

* Yo-Yo Ma TV Interview with Ennio Morricone from C Music TV

* Welcome to Baku: Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Ensemble with Alim Gasimov and Fargana ," by Aida Huseinova in Azerbaijan International, Vol.

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The concerto has been recorded by cellists such as Yo-Yo Ma ( with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic ), Lynn Harrell ( with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields ), Julian Lloyd Webber ( with Sir Charles Mackerras and the London Symphony Orchestra ), and an early rare recording by Bernard Greenhouse ( with Max Schönherr and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra ).

It has also performed with other noted musicians such as Aaron Copland, Yo-Yo Ma, and Maurizio Pollini.

McFerrin has also worked in collaboration with instrumental performers, including pianists Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Zawinul, drummer Tony Williams, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

John Schaefer, a music show host at WNYC for 20 years, has written liner notes for more than 100 albums, for everyone from Yo-Yo Ma to Terry Riley and was named a " New York influential " by New York Magazine.

As a chamber musician, Chang has collaborated with Pinchas Zukerman, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yefim Bronfman, Martha Argerich, Leif Ove Andsnes, Stephen Kovacevich, Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell, Lars Vogt, and the late Isaac Stern.

Leslie Mah has appeared in various films including The Yo-Yo Gang by G. B.

The cellist Yo-Yo Ma has employed a Hutchins vertical viola to perform and record Béla Bartók's Viola Concerto.

Since Cream ended their weekly club shows at Nation in 2002, Nation has continued to hold other events, such as the longest running and biggest student night in the UK Medication at Nation Chibuku, Film Premiere Aftershow parties, MTV and Yo-Yo to name a few.

Orpheus has collaborated with many of the great artists of our time including Isaac Stern, Gidon Kremer, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Radu Lupu, Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Horacio Gutierrez, Murray Perahia, Peter Serkin, Mitsuko Uchida, Tatiana Troyanos, Maureen Forrester, Frederica von Stade, Peter Schreier, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dawn Upshaw, and Renée Fleming.

Sukeban Deka has been adapted into three live-action television series, an original video animation series and three feature films, the latest of which was released in 2006 as Yo-Yo Girl Cop.

Serkin has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, András Schiff, Alexander Schneider, Pamela Frank, Harold Wright ( clarinetist ), the Guarneri String Quartet, the Budapest String Quartet, and other prominent musicians and ensembles, such as principal wind players of major American orchestras.

He coined the term " La guagua aérea " which has since been used by other prominent Puerto Rican authors such as Giannina Braschi who pays homage to Sánchez's classic essay in her Spanglish novel " Yo-Yo Boing !".

Serving as audio producer for PBS Great Performances he has collaborated with Andrea Bocelli, Tony Bennett, Celine Dion, Chris Botti, Audra MacDonald, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Emanuel Ax, and conductor Alan Gilbert leading the New York Philharmonic.

As one of the city's cultural venues, the Meyerhoff has hosted international classical stars such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Joshua Bell, and pianist Emanuel Ax and popular performers including singer-songwriter Harry Connick, Jr., bluegrass singer Alison Krauss and comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

In its history, the choir has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The St. Olaf Choir, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and several opera singers including Jessye Norman, Frederica von Stade and Kathleen Battle.

Over the years, Epstein has worked with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Plácido Domingo, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Bobby McFerrin, and groups such as Juilliard String Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, Fine Arts Quartet, Punch Brothers.

Over the years, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Joan Baez, Anita Baker, The Ballet Russe, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Lucrezia Bori, Dave Brubeck, Sandip Burman, Montserrat Caballé, Glen Campbell, Pablo Casals, Chicago, Van Cliburn, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Aaron Copland, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Deep Purple, Placido Domingo, Doobie Brothers, Jackie Evancho, Horacio Gutierrez, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Dorothy Dandridge, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Ella Fitzgerald, Renée Fleming, Aretha Franklin, George Gershwin, Jose Greco, Buddy Guy, Hall & Oates, Marvin Hamlisch, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jascha Heifetz, John Houseman, Jennifer Hudson, Janis Joplin, The Judds, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Chaka Khan, Lyle Lovett, Patti LuPone, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yo-Yo Ma, Maroon 5, Sarah McLachlan, Idina Menzel, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Mandy Patinkin, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Peter, Paul & Mary, Robert Plant, Bernadette Peters, Oscar Peterson, Bonnie Raitt, David Sanborn, Beverly Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Isaac Stern, Sting, Elaine Stritch, Donna Summer, James Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Clara Ward, Orson Welles, Frank Zappa and Denis Matsuev.

The hall's unique oval-shaped stage has seen performances by Rachmaninoff, the Denishawn Dance Company, The Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, The Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Ravi Shankar, Anne Sofie von Otter, Audra McDonald, The Kremerata Baltica, The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Enrico Caruso, Joan Sutherland, Robert Frost, Jysse Norman, Van Cliburn, Yo-Yo Ma, Vladimir Horowitz, Helen Hayes, Cecelia Bartoli, Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Benny Goodman, Harry Chapin, Dave Brubeck, Jack DeJohnette, The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Louis Lortie, The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Elton John, and The Grateful Dead, among others.

Wu Man has recorded for various labels, including a recording of Tan Dun ’ s Ghost Opera with the Kronos Quartet on Nonesuch, a solo recording, Wu Man – Pipa From a Distance for Naxos, and two recordings with the Silk Road Ensemble and Yo-Yo Ma for Sony Classical.

As opposed to the Island Yo-Yo, Shooting Star and the Super Nova he had in the first game, only the psychic weapons are affected by the number of heart containers Mike has filled.