Virtuoso Voices™ - Yo-Yo Ma (Cello Left Behind)  0:37
January 2008 CD 


[Music:  -Yo Ma's most recent recordings are "Appasionata" (Sony 702668) and "New Impossibilities" (Sony 710319); his complete discography is available at arkivmuic.org.]



SUGGESTED HOST INTRO

It was a busy week in New York for cellist Yo-Yo Ma.  He played a big concert in Carnegie Hall, and attended several important meetings the next day.  After his last meeting, he was overjoyed to see a friendly face as his cab pulled up to his Manhattan hotel.


CLIP TRANSCRIPT

"I was so happy to meet my wife who was in New York at the hotel and we were going to walk around New York City on a gorgeous fall day.  And I slammed the door, and between that moment and seeing my wife’s face, I realized I left the cello in the trunk.  And you know one of the worst things about losing the cello publicly is that it really does not give me much credibility with my children of saying, you know, 'don’t lose your iPod' or 'don’t lose your briefcase' because they just look at me and say 'hmmm.' (laughs)"


SUGGESTED HOST OUTRO

Yo-Yo Ma describing some of the fallout from his "Honey, I left My Cello in the Cab" incident that happened a few years ago.  (He later made a recording for the New York Taxi Association that reminded passengers to "don't be like me and leave your cello in the cab.")  He has his cello firmly in his possession with this performance of (insert music title and performers).


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