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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Yo-Yo Ma, Jonathan May, Aldo Parisot, Alan Shulman, Felix Wurman, Gregor Piatigorsky, Igor Zubkovsky, Emanuel Feuermann, Orlando Cole, Ralph Kirshbaum, Wendy Warner, Antony Cooke, Joel Krosnick, Bion Tsang, Zuill Bailey, Nathaniel Rosen, Laszlo Varga, Tanya Anisimova, Johann Sebastian Paetsch, Matt Haimovitz, Misha Quint, Sharon Robinson, Joseph Kane, Lynn Harrell, Diedre Murray, Steven Honigberg, Bernard Greenhouse, Carter Brey, Jeffrey Solow, Ronald Thomas, Charlotte Moorman, Mark Kosower, Harvey Shapiro, Nathaniel Ayers, Stephen Balderston, Joshua Roman, Andor Toth, Jr., Peter Stumpf, Eleonore Schoenfeld, John Sant'Ambrogio, Leonard Rose, Jascha Silberstein, Joseph Schuster, Alisa Weilerstein, George Sopkin, Robert deMaine, Raya Garbousova, Claus Adam, Lorne Munroe, Eleanor Aller, Yehuda Hanani, Joan Jeanrenaud, Rebecca Rust, Eileen Folson, Serena Tideman, Frank Miller, Sara Sant'Ambrogio, Dorian Rudnytsky, Abdul Wadud, John Moran, David Soyer, Stephen Custer, Phoebe Carrai, Willard Warch, Andres Diaz, Peter Wiley, Kenneth Law, Steven Doane, Fred Sherry, Arthur Winograd, Seymour Barab. Excerpt: Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer of Chinese descent, and winner of multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. He is one of the most famous cellists of the modern age. Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris on October 7, 1955, to Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist and professor of music. His family moved to New York when he was five years old. At a very young age, Ma began studying violin, and later viola, before finding his true calling by taking up the cello in 1960 at age four. According to Ma, his first choice was...
