{"id":5070,"date":"2020-11-30T07:42:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2020-11-30T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T11:42:24","slug":"yo-yo-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=5070","title":{"rendered":"Yo-Yo Ma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/23\/magazine\/yo-yo-ma-interview.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/23\/magazine\/yo-yo-ma-interview.html\">Great interview. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me as a musician, I try to be aware of where I am. As a performer, my job is to make the listener the most important person in the room. The only way to avoid burnout is to care about where you are. My good friend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/23\/magazine\/yo-yo-ma-interview.html?searchResultPosition=1#tooltip-12\">Manny Ax<sup>12<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0would always say to me that it doesn\u2019t matter what you did yesterday; if you\u2019re here today, that\u2019s what counts. Being present. Caring. You\u2019re working with living material. That goes back to memory. The living material is only living if it is memorable. Not only that it\u2019s memorable but that you pass it on. That is what I\u2019m thinking about with every single interaction. Whether it\u2019s a kid, someone on the street, in a concert hall or with you, David. It\u2019s the same thing: How to be present. Because if you\u2019re not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Re-written<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me as a <strong>teacher<\/strong>, I try to be aware of where I am. As a <strong>teacher<\/strong>, my job is to make the <strong>students<\/strong> the most important people in the room. The only way to avoid burnout is to care about where you are. My good friend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/23\/magazine\/yo-yo-ma-interview.html?searchResultPosition=1#tooltip-12\">Manny Ax<sup>12<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0would always say to me that it doesn\u2019t matter what you did yesterday; if you\u2019re here today, that\u2019s what counts. Being present. Caring. You\u2019re working with living material. That goes back to memory. The living material is only living if it is memorable. Not only that it\u2019s memorable but that you pass it on. That is what I\u2019m thinking about with every single interaction. Whether it\u2019s a <strong>student<\/strong>, someone on the street, in a <strong>school <\/strong>or with you, David. It\u2019s the same thing: How to be present. Because if you\u2019re not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great interview. For me as a musician, I try to be aware of where I am. As a performer, my job is to make the listener the most important person in the room. The only way to avoid burnout is to care about where you are. My good friend\u00a0Manny Ax12\u00a0would always say to me that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=5070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yo-Yo Ma<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1jM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}