An Evening With Yo-Yo Ma

Tuesday, May 7 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center

Special Event

The transcendent cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Elgar’s achingly beautiful concerto, one of the most well-known and revered of cello concertos, in this one-night-only performance.

Artists and repertoire

Rafael Payare, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor

The transcendent cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Elgar’s achingly beautiful concerto, one of the most well-known and revered of cello concertos, in this one-night-only performance. Written near the end of WWI, Elgar’s valedictory work is a searing response at once both tender and pained. Rafael Payare leads the Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s passionate 5th Symphony, an emotion-filled journey rife with brilliant melody.