Video of the Day: Yo-Yo Ma performs the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No.1

Holly Baker
Monday, December 16, 2024

The performance was from the re-opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral

Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 by Yo-Yo Ma. The performance was a part of the concert marking the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Yo-Yo Ma said: ‘I was so moved to witness the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris. It’s an example of what the combined generosity, skill, and will of a people can accomplish, of humans choosing collaboration and creativity instead of division and destruction. I’m reminded that we always have that choice, that it’s a choice that has been with us since the beginning, a fundamental paradox of the human experiment.’

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