Posted on 09/08/2018 3:49:22 PM PDT by nwrep
But surely, I push him, Bach could give Trump a valuable lesson in humility; if he asked you to do a private performance . . . ? “Would I play for him on his deathbed? No,” Ma says. “I operate on the premise that absolutely anybody can change, and I also recognise that it’s possible that somebody may never change . . . I also think, just by observing the performance arts world, huge ego is very often matched by huge insecurity.”
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Totally understandable. No worries.
Blogatron: I would never pay for Yo Yo Ma music, I can download it for free all the way to my deathbed.
Hey Yo....yo mama!
I’m certain that Yo Yo’s wishes won’t effect any “deathbed” plans DT might be considering.
I bet he looves the royalties from CD and ticket sales.
Yo Yo Ma is a remarkable cellist. A performance in a first class symphony hall is a very worthwhile experience, go if you have a chance. Offering political critical comments, however, is not in his wheelhouse. I have never liked Trump from a personal behavior standpoint, but the Trump that we see is designed to be effective in the business world and in politics. He is a much better performer in that arena than Yo Yo Ma is in his musical world. Trump has done more in less than two years than Obama and Bush together did in 16 years. I’ll take it and the pompous effete elitists can go and cry them to sleep. Better luck next election.
Fetid leftist dirtbag.
Obvious music isnt the most important thing or his career is in the doldrums to result in such an attention whore pronouncement ...
Shove your cello dirtbag where leftists live
A Socellist.
I never did care much for the yo-yo's playing and now I loathe him as a person. This arrogant moron obviously doesn't realize that a LOT of Trump supporters also like classical music. OTOH...a LOT "elitist" lefties only pretend to like it.
my favorite cellist just lost all my respect and all my disposable dollars for classical albums.
Because we were all waiting to hear what YOU had to say, Ma...bkow it out your ass.
Yo Ho Mo? Heh!
What a shock! And I thought he was a highly evolved, intelligent man! Can he really be that stupid, that poorly evolved, that crass?
I do NOT believe that Yo-yo Ma would say such a thing as that. Only a stupid, depraved, hate-filled low-life would say such a thing as that, and that's not Yo-yo Ma.
born in Paris. Lives in NY
ha!
ha! not unless his mentally-deteriorated politics are due to drinking too much
"Yo yo" is a fraud. If "Yo yo" were white and named John Johnson no one would pay attention.
Jacqueline du Pré was a cellist. "Yo yo" is no Jacqueline du Pré.
Which is admittedly, ALL he observes.
It appears that politics comes first with you. You're just another leftist hack.
Agreed. Yo yo wins on diversity points.
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