Our Common Nature
When the world stopped in 2020, cellist Yo-Yo Ma started thinking about how music can reconnect people to the natural world. In this limited podcast series, Yo-Yo goes around the country to places where people have deep connections to the earth and begins to play. Host Ana González joins him to uncover stories of the ways that culture binds us to nature, from Maine to Appalachia and Hawaii. The result is a seven-episode series that fuses music, personal narratives, and local histories from acr...
Episodes (19)
Isabel Hagen - likes a good viola joke
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Nicholas Britell - more than that one viral theme song!
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David Hyde Pierce - a.k.a. Niles Crane
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Jeanine Tesori - from “Fun Home” to the Met Opera
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Yo-Yo Ma - 53 years of friendship and duets
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John McWhorter - Lover of Language
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John Adams - not the President
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Gabriela Ortiz - Composer and Grammy Gal
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Marc-André Hamelin - Rocks Rachmaninoff
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Yuja Wang - Superstar Pianist Plays Too Many Encores
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Introducing Classical Music Happy Hour with Manny Ax
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Our Common Nature Recommends: Classical Music Happy Hour
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Hawai‘i: Yo-Yo Ma and the Whales
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Hawai‘i: Yo-Yo Ma on Moloka‘i
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West Virginia: Yo-Yo Ma and West Virginia Coal
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Alaska: Yo-Yo Ma and the Gwich’in play for the salmon
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The Smokies: Mountains and Forgotten Family with Yo-Yo Ma
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Kentucky: Yo-Yo Ma and the Louisville Orchestra perform in Mammoth Cave
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Acadia: Yo-Yo Ma and the Wabanaki Play for the Dawn
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Our Common Nature with Yo-Yo Ma: Coming Soon!
Our Common Nature