Yo-Yo Ma — Music Happens Between the Notes
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Classical Music Is a False Category
i like to make sweeping generalizations, and i also don't like to made sweeping geso. And i think i would first of all say that the idea of classical music is a false category. It's certainly a commercial category, because you can go into a certain world and assume that there a certain number of things that are going to be there. So they're all mixed in. The sacred and the secular definitely are part of it. And the sacred secular n and certainly the folk elements in hydand mozart and brahms, you know, the roma people. But you're right, that's not something, um, that's consciously pointed at very often,
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