The biggest thing in these two days must be that Trump stepped down and Biden was sworn in.
You can see that celebrities from all walks of life in the United States are singing the song "Farewell", a controversial figure with the head of a cheese puff, and, with enthusiasm, looking forward to the arrival of a new era: including Bang · Jovi; and Lady Gaga, who sings the national anthem with bitter tears in her eyes...
Of course, you will also pay attention to a familiar figure.
Yo-Yo Ma.
He performed a heart-pounding "Amazing Grace" to celebrate the inauguration of the new president;
Listening to the familiar melody and looking at this familiar face, you may realize at some point that this Chinese cellist has unconsciously witnessed the power transfer of the 60th anniversary of the White House, and the political affairs have changed.
From Kennedy to Obama, counting yesterday's Biden, Yo-Yo Ma has played the cello for 9 U.S. presidents.
Why has the President of the United States always had a ceremonial passion for Yo-Yo Ma's cello?
At this time, it is inevitable to recall The Last "Intimate Contact" between Yo-Yo Ma and the President of the United States: then-President Barack Obama held a ceremony at the White House and awarded Yo-Yo Ma and others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which represents the highest honor for American civilians;
And back to the original point: in the famous black-and-white video of 1962, Yo-Yo Ma was introduced to Bernstein at a concert by bernstein to an audience that included Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline.
A 7-year-old Chinese cellist, playing his ancient music, was introduced to his new American compatriots.
Later, both Eisenhower and Kennedy became big fans of the cellist.
At the 42nd presidential inauguration, he performed with President Clinton with Mark O Conner, the most prestigious violinist of the time.
It's a wonderful cultural sight.
American politicians in their prime are ambitious, and the inauguration is just a quick and surging transition: they wait for the helm to follow;
And this Chinese musician can always use his melodious cello sound to dilute the subsequent sharp changes, or to keep the secular power struggle away from people.
In the eyes of the vast majority of people, compared with the usual sharpness of artists, Yo-Yo Ma has always shown a desire for cultural exchange and a sense of tolerance for the human world.
A French immigrant from China, who learned the piano at the age of 4 and moved to New York with his family 3 years later, some people say that this immigrant has both French romance, Chinese humility, and American unrestrainedness;
He could play any music, from Chopin to Glass, from Boccherini to Piazzolla, though he was best known for Bach's cello suite: The overture to his first suite recorded in 1997 was the most popular classical music ever recorded in the United States.
However, what attracts him more attention than his musical interpretation itself is his passion for integration and collision in the vast world;
When Obama presented the award to the "world's greatest cellist," he said that "his passion for music is more remarkable than his passion for the public." ；
His "Silk Road" music project is to use music to bring together the various emotions in the world into that point;
Yo-Yo Ma also touched Jobs: at Jobs's secret funeral, Yo-Yo Ma also brought peace to the latter with his music;
It seems that when the demand for goodness reaches its peak, Yo-Yo Ma's music always arrives in time.
In this man who is always "kind and emotionally peaceful", you can fully believe that the artist, and his music, can be so harmoniously integrated.
For the Chinese, Ma Youyou may be more able to evoke a quality of intimacy, perhaps to some extent, his "moderate" way:
He was gracious, easy-going, and gentle at the emotional inauguration;
When reporters expected him to have a more colorful expression of political opinion, he consistently omitted: "I just think every citizen has a voice," and then playfully said, "I think Bach's music can teach Trump a good lesson." ”
But the unambiguous approach to music and the rejection of 18 Grammy Awards can say a lot.
Of course, if these artists still make themselves the center of the musical narrative, you will feel a little withdrawn; then Yo-Yo Ma, who still moves everyone with a song of "Amazing Grace", can always arouse everyone's inner peace of mind without accident.
Perhaps more earnestly than the expression of God's perspective of "a kaleidoscope of flowers, leaves do not stick", perhaps a more earnest statement is that Yo-Yo Ma has found everything in his passion for music and the world.
He has his world, a world that doesn't have to care about what other people want to enter, but what he wants to express.
When the Chinese people once again wept in The Joyce Ma's music, rather than saying that they were pleased with the "return of democracy" in the United States, it is more appropriate to say that we found a sympathy for any racial gender in the music of this Chinese cellist:
And even for those politicians in the United States who stand at the peak of power, even if the daily life is a knife and blood shadow, the common feeling is the same:
The need for inclusion, and the desire for love.
Yo-Yo Ma brought it to the world.