Hundreds of journalists and invited guests, including Al Gore, Yo-Yo Ma, and Robert Iger, the C.
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.
The 62-year-old will be honoured alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma and singer-songwriter Neil Diamond.
Last year's winners were US singer Paul Simon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Among those on the fund's advisory board are former US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and American cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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There are issues -- again, I have no idea whether this bears on what happened in this inauguration or not, but as I think everyone knows, in 2009, it was so cold that Yo-Yo Ma could not play.
Contrast that to four years ago, when the inaugural ceremony included Aretha Franklin but also classical musicians such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and others, and the Hollywood types were largely saved for the evening's balls.
With the help of his handlers in New York, he has learned how other classical musicians developed and exploited their star power, how Horowitz and Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan and Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma took the extra steps that provided more celebrity and greater fees.
In writing an opera for young people around the ages of his own two children (who are 6 and 10), Mr. Bruce said he gave the work the same care and attention, if not more, as previous works intended for violinist Daniel Hope ("The Given Note, " a chamber work from 2011) or Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble ("Cut the Rug, " from 2013).
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Mr. YO YO MA (World-renown Cellist): That recording just made my hair stand on end.
His first cello concerto that electrified a 15-year-old budding cellist named Yo Yo Ma.
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