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During an interlude, attendees were soothed by a performance by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Yo-Yo Ma, a warm and generous performer, came to play some Bach on his 1712 Stradivarius cello.
She says she came up with the idea while talking with cellist Yo-Yo Ma backstage at a graduation ceremony.
The composer Bruce Adolphe first met Yo-Yo Ma at the Juilliard School in New York City in 1970.
In a profession known for, let's face it, some temperament among its stars, Yo-Yo is a little different.
He had a history of yo-yo dieting with all the ups and downs in weight that it entails.
"At first, it was really yo-yo, especially with my food intake, " she said.
The 62-year-old will be honoured alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma and singer-songwriter Neil Diamond.
Yo-Yo likes to say that his goal is to take listeners on a trip with him and make a lasting connection.
Quite a nice earner considering the Blues had long been considered a yo-yo club, bouncing between the Premiership and a lesser division.
And this new approach really does open up the prospect of more effective means of weight control than those pointless yo-yo diets.
Last year's winners were US singer Paul Simon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
"Yo-Yo played through my piece, sight-reading the whole thing, " Mr. Adolphe says.
The most famous is probably the hypercello he created for Yo-Yo Ma.
When Yo-Yo Ma took his first cello lesson, there wasn't a chair short enough for him, so he sat on three phone books instead.
Alan Greenspan, who chaired the Fed for nearly 20 years, and his successor, Ben Bernanke, have allowed the dollar to be treated like a yo-yo.
He featured artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Kathleen Battle, who in 1994 was publicly dispatched from the Met by Volpe after being accused of unprofessional behavior.
He's written violin concertos and chamber music performed by some of today's top classical musicians, such as Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming and the Eroica Trio.
"Here's this heavy metaphysical painting with a father figure whose head could be bobbed up and down like a yo-yo, played with, or dropped, " Ms. Fort says.
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There is no doubt that Yo-Yo Ma is a great musician and a great cellist, but tonight we also honor him because he is a great human being.
Bagpipers opened the gathering, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus sang the national anthem, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed, and Paul Simon played his classic song The Sounds Of Silence.
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For Yo-Yo Ma's hypercello, Machover placed sensors on the instrument, the performer's wrist and his bow and fed the electronic impulses generated by those sensors into a computer.
If his scale hadn't been hooked up to the internet, sending and charting his weight, he would not have noticed the "seasonal yo-yo effect" in his weight, he said.
London's Underground, for example, has seen its operating subsidy yo-yo from one year to the next, according to the amount of cash the government thinks it has to spare.
But maybe the most amazing thing about Yo-Yo Ma is that everybody likes him. (Laughter.) You've got to give me some tips. (Laughter and applause.) It's remarkable.
Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Sonny Rollins, Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma: At a time of year when Americans everywhere are counting their blessings, we want to give thanks to their extraordinary contributions.
If you just look back at the history of CIA estimates of Iran's nuclear program, you discover that they have been all over the map, bobbing back and forth like a yo-yo.
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