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This is FRESH AIR.
I'm Terry Gross.
My guest is Yo Yo Ma.
Along with his cello, which he'll be playing, he's the most famous contemporary cellist and perhaps the most revered in the US.
His best known recordings are of the Bach solo cello suites, which he's recorded three times in 1980, 319, 97 and 2018.
He's performed with orchestras around the world.
But lots of people who pay no attention to classical music know Yo Yo Ma because he's performed in so many different settings.
He's played american folk and bluegrass music, and he's played music from around the world with the Silk Road ensemble, which he founded.
He appeared on Mister Rogers neighborhood, Sesame street and the Simpsons on the first anniversary of 911.
At the ceremony held at Ground Zero, he performed one of the Bach's cello suites.
More recently, he played at the memorial for the seven aid workers from world Central Kitchen who, who were feeding people trapped in Gaza.
He started playing cello at age four, and by the time he was seven, he performed at an event attended by President Kennedy and former president Dwight Eisenhower, where Yo Yo Ma was introduced by Leonard Bernstein.
In 2011, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama.