Linda Rogers wrote: >Yo Yo Ma on the other hand devotes himself to his video projects and his >Bach gardens and so forth. I will let you judge the relative worth for >yourselves. To be fair to Yo Yo Ma and his wider-range of activities than described above, here is a newsgroup quote from Henry Fogel, Executive Director of the Chicago Symphony, who was most put out in Oct '99 by thoughts that Yo Yo is a dilettante, who doesn't put much effort into music in any varied way: "A few days ago in Chicago Yo-Yo Ma played an entire recital of music for unaccompanied cello, and not a note of it was Bach (until the encore); all of it was twentieth century, three of the four pieces by living composers, and two of them written for Ma. Ma has recorded, for example, cello concertos or major works by Barber, Britten, Rouse, Herbert, Albert, Danielpour. Kirchner, Goldschmidt, Taverner, Ives, Korngold, Bernstein, Franz Schmidt, and many other non-standard composers. There is hardly a "star" performer in our era (except Rostropovich) who has consistently strayed as much from the standard repertoire. Henry Fogel " Andrys in Berkeley http://www.andrys.com/books.html Search sheet music, videos, CDs, books