Yo-Yo Ma Honored By President Obama

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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
  • 2011 Kennedy Center Honoree Yo-Yo Ma was honored by President Barack Obama during a ceremony at the White House.
    Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Ma is regarded by some as the most famous cellist of the modern age.
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Комментарии • 67

  • @7thgradeviolin
    @7thgradeviolin 12 лет назад +118

    Whether you like President Obama or not, conservatives and liberals can agree that Obama honored the right people that day, including Yo-Yo Ma.

    • @amyr3285
      @amyr3285 2 года назад +2

      I love the guy. Love his facial expressions when he is being praised--so humble! :)

  • @IrisMG
    @IrisMG 12 лет назад +51

    I love Yo-Yo Ma. I have two of his albums on my iPod and can listen to him all day long. Friends of mine who live in the Boston area say he's the nicest guy ever, too. So I love it when nice guys win. Congratulations, Mr. Ma!

  • @anomieaith1044
    @anomieaith1044 6 лет назад +78

    Gosh, if i'm not mistaken- Obama is actually talking heartfelt- without prompters- about Yoyo's actual career. This is incredible to think in the age of trump; trump being a man who can't tie his own shoelace. It's just weird man, to see a president actually speak a sentence.

    • @edutch54
      @edutch54 6 лет назад +10

      Yes, full and intelligent sentences at a college level, I miss President Obama! Trump speaks at a 4th grade level and it embarrasses me to no end.

  • @RobertSJHu
    @RobertSJHu 3 года назад +3

    Aloha to you Yo-Yo Ma and so glad to see you were honored by President Barrack Obama in 2011 !!!!!! Am 79 years old and I have
    been blessed to hear your glorious music !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take care and God bless !!!!!! Robert S.J. Hu August 9, 2021.

  • @CelloCoach
    @CelloCoach 6 лет назад +12

    Vous étiez ma inspiration que me poussée dan le monde de violoncelle, depuis 1988. Je vous remercie, Ma.

  • @uuuuuuuuiiiiiii
    @uuuuuuuuiiiiiii 3 года назад +12

    I simply adore Barack Obama. He’s truly a great orator

  • @mechagodzilla2799
    @mechagodzilla2799 2 года назад +4

    Yo yo ma is the best cello player ever to me

  • @paulsmusics
    @paulsmusics 4 года назад +7

    president who well versed about music, way he explain and appreciate musician is remarkable....Obama...

  • @basielu
    @basielu 7 лет назад +103

    *sigh* remember when we had a president to be proud of? Good times.

    • @Ace1King1
      @Ace1King1 7 лет назад +3

      You can be proud of Trump. After all, he's one of the best presidents we've ever had.

    • @basielu
      @basielu 7 лет назад +8

      *w h e e z e*

    • @Ace1King1
      @Ace1King1 7 лет назад +1

      sausagekay chinchilla You better take care of that cold. I suggest you sit back, relax and watch the many YT videos of Trump's visits to the flooded areas in Texas and Louisiana so you can see the compassion he and Melania had for the victims of this terrible tragedy. He and Melania's involvement in the food lines, supply distributions, talking to the victims in the shelters and the spectators who came to see him when he landed at the airport was impressive. If you can watch these videos and truly say that you weren't moved by the president's actions then you have an abnormal hatred of Trump that will not serve you well since he is going to be around for a long, long time.

    • @ricomis7055
      @ricomis7055 6 лет назад +2

      What planet did you come down from dude?

    • @ricomis7055
      @ricomis7055 6 лет назад +8

      Yep, he has such compsssion even for those "good people" marching with the NAZIs and KKK idiots. Yep fine man. Maybe those Puerto Ricans out there on the big island surrounded by a lot of water will speak of his compassion also? Problem is, you can't see that this man is not qualified by temperment or intellect to be president.

  • @sochiemoto3393
    @sochiemoto3393 10 лет назад +10

    ONE LOVE,,YO,YO,MA,,,,SOCHI,,,

  • @gabrielemadeja-gj9qs
    @gabrielemadeja-gj9qs 6 месяцев назад

    The world best cello player....a hugger...the sexyest man alive... a great human being!!!! What a great speech... how sweetly - almost humbly - Yo-Yo Ma received it!! Bravo! Congrats! + hugs of course

  • @mrxxbrian
    @mrxxbrian 2 года назад +3

    Obama is always so damn smooth, im envious

  • @gabrielemadeja-gj9qs
    @gabrielemadeja-gj9qs 6 месяцев назад

    Best Cello.Player of the World being honoured by the Best US President since a long time! ❤❤

  • @tokumeig654
    @tokumeig654 9 лет назад +19

    Congress is like Sesame Street! LOL.

  • @tinamarie8061
    @tinamarie8061 3 года назад +3

    It’s 2021 and i still drop by Obama’s White House for a little sunshine

  • @SONUkumar-ne1eh
    @SONUkumar-ne1eh 4 года назад +4

    Love from india to Obama ji and yo yo ma...

  • @Kedbuka
    @Kedbuka 8 лет назад +2

    Really cool...

  • @dinkarrao1
    @dinkarrao1 2 года назад +1

    two of finest Americans even at my age i would serve my nation, as general Patton , let other person (enemy) die for his nation

  • @Ace1King1
    @Ace1King1 7 лет назад +31

    I hope Obama realized how much of an honor it was to be in the same room with Yo-Yo.

    • @Dr.Nagyonfaj
      @Dr.Nagyonfaj 3 года назад

      I'm thinking Obama felt exactly the opposite - what an honor it was to be in the same room as him.

    • @Ace1King1
      @Ace1King1 3 года назад

      @@Dr.Nagyonfaj You've got to be kidding!! Yo-Yo Ma is one of the greatest musicians and humanitarians of our time. Obama is nothing but a corrupt politician.

    • @Dr.Nagyonfaj
      @Dr.Nagyonfaj 3 года назад

      @@Ace1King1 You are absolutely 100% correct. Which is why I said that is what OBAMA thinks of HIMSELF - that probably in his eyes, he was thinking what an honor it was for everyone else in the room to be in his presence. That man has one of the worst messiah-complexes. I just wish Yo-Yo Ma had been honored by a better man. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

  • @vincestyles1030
    @vincestyles1030 5 месяцев назад

    I don’t do politics but Obama can talk I miss it.

  • @andora46
    @andora46 12 лет назад

    Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Neil, Das war eine Auszeichnung diäe verdient waur

  • @rochellewarren6219
    @rochellewarren6219 2 года назад

    🤟🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @alphabetacanton
    @alphabetacanton 9 лет назад +10

    Obama must be relieved that Yo Yo Ma can't run for the presidency. Yo Yo was born in Paris.

    • @alphabetacanton
      @alphabetacanton 8 лет назад

      ***** It is a fact. You have to be born in the USA in order to run for the presidency. So people like Henry Kissinger is ineligible because he was born in Europe.

    • @alphabetacanton
      @alphabetacanton 8 лет назад

      ***** It is one of those arbitrary "rules" that the USA had chosen to adopt. Different countries have different ways of doing things. For example, you don't have to be born in the UK to be Prime Minister of the UK. I suppose the US being a relatively new country (it only became independent in 1776,) and the country is made of mostly of immigrants, she wanted to be sure that the top office was held by somebody who was "totally" American. Who knows, maybe one day, even the US would change their rules.

    • @elterrancito6332
      @elterrancito6332 5 лет назад

      You know u can always become a citizen of the US

    • @seamus1956
      @seamus1956 5 лет назад +1

      Elon Musk Tesla Fan! Naturalized citizens don’t qualify, but children born to US citizens in other countries do. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the US Constitution sets the qualifications to run for President as:
      •• being a natural born citizen
      •• being at least 35 years old
      •• residing within the borders of the United States for at least 14 years

    • @icomment7715
      @icomment7715 2 года назад

      Obama was born in Kenya

  • @7thgradeviolin
    @7thgradeviolin 11 лет назад +2

    Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, trust me, I know.

  • @yelassinacoulibaly819
    @yelassinacoulibaly819 2 года назад

    🌈❤️❤️❤️🌈

  • @jamesbay9
    @jamesbay9 12 лет назад

    thought yo-yo ma was like t-pains side kick or sumthin

  • @O5680
    @O5680 11 лет назад +2

    Well, Yo yo ma is better than any American cellist, trust me, i know.

  • @maryanndelorey9700
    @maryanndelorey9700 4 месяца назад

    Maybe Obama should learn the cello. 😊

  • @O5680
    @O5680 11 лет назад

    He is smarter.

  • @denise2169
    @denise2169 3 года назад

    Yo-Yo Ma is an amazingly humble and respectful human being, and I can’t help thinking that if Obama had not put down Trump so badly at that White House dinner so many years ago, Trump would not have run for office and the world would be a very different place today.

  • @sarahkteam
    @sarahkteam 12 лет назад

    Lol I thought it said Yo mamma!

  • @littleshepherdcupw.6609
    @littleshepherdcupw.6609 3 года назад

    They did the great jobs, but I can feel a little bit your jealousy through your video cover.🙈😂

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    @chantelrachelle6133 3 года назад

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  • @fredvonbreuer6998
    @fredvonbreuer6998 Год назад

    Just too much monkey business! 👎

  • @PrometheusMovement
    @PrometheusMovement 12 лет назад

    dont sell out to british banker families.

  • @angryveryoldman
    @angryveryoldman 11 лет назад

    rasist

  • @circusboy90210
    @circusboy90210 12 лет назад +1

    this is no honor to meet obama.

  • @pt80751
    @pt80751 12 лет назад

    well the Obama seems to have a humor sence.....but he is not foolin US