The composer Bruce Adolphe first met Yo-Yo Ma at the Juilliard School in New York City in 1970.
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They went through the piece again, and when Mr. Ma came to the impossible chord, Mr. Adolphe yelled "Stop!"
Before Mr. Adolphe could correct the music, however, Mr. Ma decided to rehearse the composition in his dorm room.
Mr. Adolphe told Mr. Ma what the professor had said and asked how he had managed to play the impossible chord.
"Unfortunately, I had no idea what I was doing, " Mr. Adolphe remembers.
"Yo-Yo played through my piece, sight-reading the whole thing, " Mr. Adolphe says.
Mr. Adolphe had shown a draft of his composition to a Juilliard instructor, who informed him that the piece featured a chord that was impossible to play.
Mr. Adolphe had just written his first cello piece.
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