Musician Yo-Yo Ma's sister was invaded by floods in her home, and musical instruments and manuscripts were destroyed

Source: China News Network

According to the "World Journal" of the United States, Hurricane "Ada" brought serious floods to the eastern United States, and Queens in New York City was the hardest hit area. The sister of the well-known cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Ma You-riding, was also devastated at her home in Queens. Not only were many precious musical instruments badly damaged in the flood, but a number of precious musical scores and manuscripts of his father Ma Xiaojun were also destroyed in an instant.

"Our family is really sad." Ma Youcheng said that the basement of her home is the studio of the symphony orchestra, which contains many precious instruments including piano, cello, viola, violin, violin, guitar and so on, as well as treasured sheet music manuscripts and a large number of musical classics left by her father Ma Xiaojun, as well as professional electronic equipment and precious historical photos recorded for students, but they were all flooded by a heavy rain that could not be vented on the evening of the 1st, and none of them were spared.

"After soaking for 12 hours, there is no way to measure the losses we have caused with money." Ma Youcheng sighed in an interview on the 6th that the rain began to increase from 10 o'clock that night, and the whole family did not care at first, until 11 o'clock at night when they found that the water surface was about to flood the floor.

"Because there are a lot of electronic devices in it, we don't dare to rush in, so we can only dial 911 for help." Ma Youcheng said that firefighters came to Ma Youcheng's house at about 3 a.m. on the 2nd to rescue, and did not drain the water until noon to enter the basement, "At that time, the basement door was found lying on the ground, and there was a huge hole in it, which was directly penetrated by water, which showed how amazing the water potential was at that time." ”

Yo-Yo Ma learned the piano with his younger brother Yo-Yo Ma since childhood, and at the age of 12, he and Yo-Yo Ma, nine,took to Carnegie Hall with yo-yo Ma. Although he later transferred to Harvard Medical School as a pediatrician, Ma Yousheng, who was born into a musical family, was deeply obsessed with music, and took over the "New York Youth Symphony Orchestra" founded by his father after his retirement, and trained countless peach and plum for the Century Orchestra for decades, and many equipment was placed in the basement.

Ma Yousheng said that the two tripod pianos in the basement have been washed over by water, all the equipment in the house cannot be used, the walls and decorations have to be renovated, and all the instruments and music classics are still being rescued and dried, "The alumni of the symphony orchestra have spontaneously come to help sort out, we have been cleaning up all the time these days, but the damage is too serious, and I don't know when it will be completely straightened out." ”

In the face of the disaster, Ma Yousheng said that he was "suppressing heartache" and insisting on working, "After all, our orchestra will resume classes on September 18, and since the disaster has occurred, we must face the future with a strong and optimistic heart." (Zhang Xin)