such excellent news!
and from Yo-Yo's interview
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On whether there will be a return to the concert hall
"Getting back" to something, for me, is not so much getting back to the concert hall but to get back to values. I think there's something communal in all of us that has to be dealt with, and I know that our profession is very, very much worried about all this, but I think there are ways of dealing with things. For example, a lot of people are thinking of doing live drive-in events. And drive-ins are actually part of our culture. Cars are some of the best PPEs [personal protective equipment] that we have.
This is a moment for creativity, for people to say "Actually, let's dig into our histories and see what actually might make something really cool and maybe even nostalgic."
On making more space in the classical world for black musicians
There was a conversation hosted where the head of an organization called Sphinx — which supports young black and brown musicians, who have been working for the last 20, 30 years — and the result of that was saying that "we've got the goods, we've got the talent" and it's now a moment of action. I think this is a moment where, yes, black lives do matter, but black lives in every profession matter. And we're not too busy to do that.
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juneteenth
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