Yo-Yo Ma: Think Outside the Box Trivia Contest!
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Check out the official answers to the Yo-Yo Ma Think Outside the Box Trivia Contest below.
Trivia Answers:
1. What is the name of the special honor that President Obama will be awarding to Yo-Yo Ma in early 2011?
Answer: The Presidential Medal of Freedom
2. From what university did Yo-Yo Ma receive his undergraduate degree?
Answer: Harvard University
3. Where and what will Yo-Yo Ma be playing on January 30, 2011?
Answer: Chicago, IL. Brahms Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano with Emanuel Ax and Anthony Mcgill.
4. Name the hip-hop anthem which Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Silk Road Project performed for New York City schoolchildren at the American Museum of Natural History.
Answer: "Empire State of Mind"
5. What other instrument besides the cello has Yo-Yo Ma played as part of the Silk Road Project?
Answer: The Mongolian morin khuur.
6. What is the name of the piece that the Silk Road Ensemble played in a Live from Lincoln Center performance in June 2009, which will also be repeated during their Spring 2011 US tour)? (Hint: you can see the video right on the Silk Road Project’s site—you can scroll through the video player to access all videos.)
Answer: Osvaldo Golijov's "Air to Air"
7. Where was Yo-Yo Ma born?
Answer: Paris, France
8. How many Yo-Yo Ma albums are there currently on Ariama.com in total, including compilations and appearances on other artists’ recordings?
Answer: 140
9. What is the earliest recording Yo-Yo Ma made for Sony Masterworks (then known as CBS) currently available on Ariama.com?
Answer: Lalo and Saint-Saens Cello Concertos, 1980.
Please view the Official Contest Rules for more details.
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