Guest choreographer Fredrick Earl Mosley's premiere "Saddle Up!" is set to Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor's music from "Appalachian Journey," a remarkable mix including classical sounds and reels for cello, bass, and fiddle. Agnes De Mille ...
Much of the music by Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, and Yo-Yo Ma channels Aaron Copland, although an agitated string passage fizzes up the action in one scene. Much of the movement, too, is what you'd expect, like the simulated galloping (with ...
Choreographed by Fredrick Earl Mosley to an engaging composite score involving Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, and Yo-Yo Ma, it's a puerile take on already hokey Wild West themes. The dancers were as sassy as could be under the dismal circumstances ...
Danny Burstein Miss Emily Ma (Daughter of Yo-Yo Ma) Mr. Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist Ms. Jill C. Hornor The Honorable (Mr.) Frederic ... Mark O'Connor, Kennedy Center Artists Committee Member Ms. Sarah deWall (Guest) Mr. Jack L Oliver, Board of Trustees, The ...
... he has collaborated with many of the foremost artists of our time, such as Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, and Renee Fleming. During his appearance on From the Top, O'Connor talked about his musical beginnings as well as a music camp he founded, the Mark O ...
Mark O'Connor, a Grammy Award-winning composer and violinist, recently conducted ... O'Connor has recorded for the Sony Classical label and collaborated with violinist Yo Yo Ma and composer John Williams. The New York Times has called his work, "one ...
Meyer, "a bass virtuoso of extraordinary gifts" (San Francisco Chronicle), has performed Bach's cello suites on double-bass in solo recital at Carnegie Hall, held the bottom for Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor for the huge hit Appalachian Waltz and played ...
We'll bring in somebody like Mark O'Connor, who was here (in October). He plays with Yo-Yo Ma regularly and here he is on stage in Dubuque performing and it's just inspiring to see somebody with that talent. Then there are the things that people don ...
... Ross, Martin Scorsese and Brian Wilson, and featuring violinist Mark O'Connor ... O'Connor has surely been a central figure in that cross-pollination. He's the man who taught Yo-Yo Ma how to do country fiddling on a cello, and the one who opened the ...
... Mark O'Connor," the violinist and composer known for his albums in various forms of native American music, such as bluegrass and jazz, and for his more recent forays into classical music, collaborating with artists such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma. O'Connor's ...
