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I think the most important thing that one can do as a performer is to be absolutely present.

So here's my personal scenario. The hall is my living room.

Everybody in the hall is here because I invited them to a party. I'm going to have a great time.

That's YoYoMaw playing the first few seconds of the prelude to the Bach's cello suite number one.

It's the beginning of over two hours of sublime music in all six cello suites.

Not long ago, I heard my friend YoYo play all six suites in a concert at Tanglewood and the Burgers.

It was an amazing and moving experience.

And it was even more amazing when you think that this was just one of 36 performances of the cello suites that will be doing in 36 different locations around the world.

It's an effort YoYo calls the Bach project in which the beauty of the music is only the beginning.

Each concert is tied to what YoYo calls a day of action, a series of conversations and collaborations unique to each location that grapple with the concerns of the people who live there.

A couple of days after the Tanglewood concert, I sat down with YoYo in a recording studio where he was getting ready to join a mandolin player, a fiddle player, and a bassist to record an album of bluegrass music.

YoYo, I'm so excited to be talking to you today.

When I saw your concert at Tanglewood a couple of days ago, it was such a fantastic evening and it was a milestone in my life.

I got to tell you about that.

A milestone in your life.

Yeah, well, funny.

I'm sure doing the concert with me in the audience was a milestone in your life.

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