{"id":57462,"date":"2018-12-09T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=57462"},"modified":"2018-12-09T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T17:47:12","slug":"the-scoop-yo-yo-ma-surprises-montreal-with-free-performance-in-the-metro-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2018\/12\/09\/the-scoop-yo-yo-ma-surprises-montreal-with-free-performance-in-the-metro-video\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Yo-Yo Ma Surprises Montr\u00e9al With Free Performance In The M\u00e9tro (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Yo-yo-Ma-Montreal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Yo-yo-Ma-Montreal.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Yo-yo-Ma-Montreal-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Yo-yo-Ma-Montreal-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yo-Yo Ma had a surprise gift of unsuspecting Montrealers venturing out for holiday shopping on Saturday, as he performed a free concert at Place des Arts m\u00e9tro station\u00a0in downtown Montr\u00e9al. The world-renowned cellist was in the city for a sold out concert on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The free performance was both part of \u00a0Ma\u2019s \u201cBach project,\u201d which will see Ma play Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s six suites for solo cello in 36 location across six continents, and \u201cA Day of Action\u201d event celebrating the intersections of AI, art, and ethics to discuss how artistic collaboration in machine learning developments is vital to shaping the future of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Yo-Yo Ma\u00a0was joined by Olivier Oullier of Emotiv to demonstrate the company\u2019s work on neuroinformatics and music\u2019s impact on the brain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mLkN6nYk-kE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Performing on a stage set-up by the Soci\u00e9te de Transport de Montr\u00e9al, Ma addressed the astonished crowd, \u201cThis is fantastic \u2014 in the m\u00e9tro, for everyone. And now I want to play something for you, and we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the m\u00e9tro, you\u2019re all linked together because you\u2019re travelling together every day from one place to another,\u201d he explained. \u201cThis is what unites us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire performance was live-streamed on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fstminfo%2Fvideos%2F332722737458502%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yo-Yo Ma had a surprise gift of unsuspecting Montrealers venturing out for holiday shopping on Saturday, as he performed a free concert at Place des Arts m\u00e9tro station\u00a0in downtown Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14761,9567,39,66],"tags":[25163,3631],"yst_prominent_words":[7202,10617,12665,12528,25162,7694,7451,9949,11181,10629,8590,12527,12522],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Yo-yo-Ma-Montreal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-eWO","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57462"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57469,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462\/revisions\/57469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57462"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}