Talk:Yo-Yo Ma
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Ancestry according to Faces of America Study
editStating that "research revealed that Ma is distantly related to actress Eva Longoria" is a misinterpretation of the genomic studies conducted by Faces of America. As stated in Eva Longoria's article, research found that they share the same mitochondrial haplogroup, which means that they likely share a common ancestor generations ago. But keep in mind that only a couple of dozen of haplogroups have been identified, meaning that large parts of the world with similar ancestry share the same haplogroup. Going to state they they are distant cousins, as in the quoted article, goes too far unless backed up by some primary data from the study. I would suggest removing or restating this section.Murakamifan93 (talk) 15:31, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
Change Musical Artist infobox to Person infobox?
editYo-Yo Ma is a classical cellist, not a pop artist. For that reason I suggest we use Infobox Person, as this has fewer trivia fields and also less redundancy. --Kleinzach 12:51, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Absolutely. This is one of the worst bios I have ever read on a classical musician. It focuses on trivialities like TV appearances instead of on the artist. After reading this article, one gets a very wrong view of Yo-Yo Ma. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB08:9B:CB00:ADE9:EB42:C050:7ABD (talk) 06:54, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Inclusion of sister's info??
editOut of curiosity, why is his eldest sister's info included along with Ma's in the Personal Life section. If she was married to someone that connects directly with Ma it would make sense, but this type of connection does not appear to be the case. Thoughts?THX1136 (talk) 19:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Wife
editMany articles say that his wife, Jill Hornor, is a teacher or instructor or professor of German literature at Harvard. This is not true, as can easily be verified on the Harvard web site. She was apparently a graduate student in German literature at Harvard, and a tutor at a House,[1] but that's not at all the same thing. I have corrected the article. --Macrakis (talk) 22:41, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- The official directory (including the internal version) agrees that no "Jill Horner" is currently employed by Harvard. FourViolas (talk) 22:53, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- Actually, that directory does show Jill Hornor (correct spelling) as an "associate of the Department of Music" (whatever that means). But there's no reason to include that detail in the Yo-Yo Ma article. --Macrakis (talk) 16:59, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
References
- ^ "The first three years of their marriage were spent at Leverett House, where Ma was artist-in-residence and Jill a tutor in German." http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/03/yo-yo-mas-journeys-html
External links trimmed
edit- About Us, The Children's Orchestra Society, ChildrensOrch.org, 2007
- Yo-Yo Ma in Conversation from WGBH Radio Boston
- Yo-Yo Ma Interview on Time.com, October 2008
- Yo-Yo Ma Podcast Series produced by Sony BMG Masterworks
- Yo-Yo Ma TV Interview with Ennio Morricone from C Music TV
- 2006 Dan David Prize laureate
- "Welcome to Baku: Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Ensemble with Alim Gasimov and Fargana" by Aida Huseinova in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 14:2 (Summer 2006), p. 14
- Bennett, Charles (March 21, 1980). "Profile of Yo-Yo Ma". Digital Library. Boston TV News.
Note: I have trimmed the above external links as I don't see the purpose in keeping them. If someone wants to find information, please feel free to read and use them as a citation if required. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:43, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
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Grammys 18, not 19 https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/yo-yo-ma — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.197.233 (talk) 17:30, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Meeting Rostropovitch
editI'm surprised that there is no mention of the master class in 1976 in which Ma met Rostropovitch. There is presumably documentation of this somewhere, e.g. in the Harvard Crimson.Bill (talk) 08:16, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Yo-Yo Ma Museum
editApparently, according to this article, a Yo-Yo Ma Museum was opened in 2017 in the Ma family's ancestral home in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 09:57, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
"Yeon chang ma" listed at Redirects for discussion
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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Yeon chang ma. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 26#Yeon chang ma until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin (she/they, no pref.) | o toki tawa mi. 23:08, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
Pinyin
editHis name in Chinese is 马友友, but the pinyin is listed in this article as Mǎ Yǒuyǒu. My Chinese lecturer was talking about him in class today, and said that the second syllable "you" is pronounced with a neutral tone, and as such the pinyin would be Mǎ Yǒuyou. This pattern of pronouncing the second syllable neutrally is also used in words e.g. gēge, xièxie, and māma, so I think the pinyin in this article should be changed for the second "you" to be a neutral tone. BhamBoi (talk) 13:29, 31 July 2024 (UTC)