The Language of Music, and Vice Versa
Yo-Yo Ma asks a question of Eric Tinkerhess, a cellist from Community High School, during a master class session at Hill Auditorium on Saturday. On piano is J Bennett, and Jacob Joyce was playing violin. The three teens form the Trio Animando. (Image links to larger version.)
Oftentimes here at The Chronicle we cover wildly different events within the span of a few hours. And equally often, it ends up that seemingly different things – like classical music and a language competition – have all sorts of connections we never imagined.
And so it was on Saturday, when we observed first a master class taught by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Hill Auditorium, followed by a statewide Japanese Quiz Bowl at the University of Michigan Modern Languages Building, just behind Hill. Both events were attended by several hundred people, and both had communication at their core.
But only one of them talked about vomit, and that’s where we’ll begin. [Full Story]