Hundreds of journalists and invited guests, including Al Gore, Yo-Yo Ma, and Robert Iger, the C.
The composer Bruce Adolphe first met Yo-Yo Ma at the Juilliard School in New York City in 1970.
In a profession known for, let's face it, some temperament among its stars, Yo-Yo is a little different.
"At first, it was really yo-yo, especially with my food intake, " she said.
Quite a nice earner considering the Blues had long been considered a yo-yo club, bouncing between the Premiership and a lesser division.
Last year's winners were US singer Paul Simon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
"Yo-Yo played through my piece, sight-reading the whole thing, " Mr. Adolphe says.
The most famous is probably the hypercello he created for Yo-Yo Ma.
Alan Greenspan, who chaired the Fed for nearly 20 years, and his successor, Ben Bernanke, have allowed the dollar to be treated like a yo-yo.
He's written violin concertos and chamber music performed by some of today's top classical musicians, such as Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming and the Eroica Trio.
"Here's this heavy metaphysical painting with a father figure whose head could be bobbed up and down like a yo-yo, played with, or dropped, " Ms. Fort says.
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There is no doubt that Yo-Yo Ma is a great musician and a great cellist, but tonight we also honor him because he is a great human being.
Bagpipers opened the gathering, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus sang the national anthem, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed, and Paul Simon played his classic song The Sounds Of Silence.
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If his scale hadn't been hooked up to the internet, sending and charting his weight, he would not have noticed the "seasonal yo-yo effect" in his weight, he said.
But maybe the most amazing thing about Yo-Yo Ma is that everybody likes him. (Laughter.) You've got to give me some tips. (Laughter and applause.) It's remarkable.
Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Sonny Rollins, Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma: At a time of year when Americans everywhere are counting their blessings, we want to give thanks to their extraordinary contributions.
Among those on the fund's advisory board are former US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and American cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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For instance, if the daily diet soda drinkers saw their weight yo-yo (perhaps because they were drinking diet soda to lose weight), then the correlation with vascular events might lie with these changes in weight.
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But perhaps Lego should not strive unduly to keep up with electronic fashion: the big hit this Christmas at Hamleys, London's toy mecca, was a come-back story dating back to ancient Greece: the humble yo-yo.
There are issues -- again, I have no idea whether this bears on what happened in this inauguration or not, but as I think everyone knows, in 2009, it was so cold that Yo-Yo Ma could not play.
Contrast that to four years ago, when the inaugural ceremony included Aretha Franklin but also classical musicians such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and others, and the Hollywood types were largely saved for the evening's balls.
With the help of his handlers in New York, he has learned how other classical musicians developed and exploited their star power, how Horowitz and Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan and Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma took the extra steps that provided more celebrity and greater fees.
In writing an opera for young people around the ages of his own two children (who are 6 and 10), Mr. Bruce said he gave the work the same care and attention, if not more, as previous works intended for violinist Daniel Hope ("The Given Note, " a chamber work from 2011) or Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble ("Cut the Rug, " from 2013).
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During an interlude, attendees were soothed by a performance by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Yo-Yo Ma, a warm and generous performer, came to play some Bach on his 1712 Stradivarius cello.
She says she came up with the idea while talking with cellist Yo-Yo Ma backstage at a graduation ceremony.
The 62-year-old will be honoured alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma and singer-songwriter Neil Diamond.
Yo-Yo likes to say that his goal is to take listeners on a trip with him and make a lasting connection.
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