First up is renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma with Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 (https://youtu.be/Rx_IibJH4rA?si=diVD-xKLX-KwTGgM). Last week, He was awarded the Lifelong Learning Award by NPR Philadelphia where he both performed and was interviewed by Terry Gross.
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Nature at Play: J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (Live from the Great Smoky Mountains)

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Fun Fact: I found out that Yo-Yo Ma plays a 1733 Domenico Montagnana cello named Petunia.
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Phillipa Soo is a Chinese-American soprano who is most known for her role as Eliza Schuyler in “Hamilton”. She’s a Juilliard trained, multiple Tony Award nominee & multiple Grammy Award winner. Recently she was in “Gutenberg! The Musical!” & “Camelot” on Broadway. Also, she’s now a published children’s book co-author!
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“Allegiance” is a musical set during the WWII Japanese American internment based on the experiences of George Takei. It’s the first Broadway musical created & directed by and starring a predominantly Asian American cast (https://youtu.be/5GWGhPp5eeU?si=CZ3sHmp-P4Y6zPgB)
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Allegiance || Full Company - "Our Time Now"

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Ryan Frenk is a Queer Filipino-Malaysian classical tenor and actor who like me, they’re both a Houston Children’s Chorus and UHouston alum-just an all around great human that I’m proud to call a friend. They’re currently based in Chicago as a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus and an educator at both the Chicago School of Music and the Music conservatory of Illinois
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Shoba Narayan is the first South Asian actress to play Princess Jasmine on Broadway. She is also an award-winning bharatanatyam (classical Tamil dance) performer and teacher, a classical violinist and a trained ballet dancer. She recently performed at the White House under this strangely sexy painting of President Lincoln
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Michael Maliakel is a first generation Indian American and the first South Asian actor to play Aladdin on Broadway and the first South Asian actor to play The Phantom.
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Helen Sung is a Taiwanese and Chinese-American, Houston- born, New York based Jazz pianist, composter and music educator. She Studied at HSPVA, UT-Austin and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.
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Midori. Seiji Ozawa. “Carmen Fantasy”. (https://youtu.be/DI7E04suRH0?si=038XD_Z1IiVzpIEY) what more do you need?
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Sarasate: Carmen fantasy - Midori & Seiji from Leonard Bernstein 70th Birthday Concert 1988

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Yo-Yo Ma and Midori along with the Berklee Indian Music Ensemble were featured on #RetroView’s first #AANHPIHeritageMonth classical music playlist in 2022 (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTftYpnIW6USVZFhyM00PZo-0&si=yo07G8e1XI-L85vi)
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Christina and Michelle Naughton are Chinese-American twin pianists who trained at the Juilliard School. They perform as a duo- often on the same piano simultaneously!- and are known for their intensity. Hold on to your hats, folx!
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Jose Llana is a Filipino-American singer and actor who was most recently in “Here Lies Love” on Broadway” and will be in an upcoming encore production of “Titanic!” Also, on Broadway
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Pearl Sun is a Chinese-American singer and actress who most recently was in “Come from Away” and starred as THE Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard” but most will know her as the best Diana understudy in “Next to Normal”
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Tan Dun is a Chinese-American composer and conductor who has won multiple awards including an Academy Award and Grammy Award for his film score for Ang Lee's “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000) (https://youtu.be/CO9TtI_wReQ?si=0vwicx58BssTCR6b)
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Soundtrack - Tan Dun

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Queen Liliʻuokalani (Sept. 2, 1838 – Nov. 11, 1917) was the first queen regent and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was also a multiinstrumentalist and composer whose song “Aloha ʻOe” is a cultural symbol of Hawaii. PBS produced an episode of “American Experience” available here (https://youtu.be/Q6wrfL7Tohc?si=d8YLMwtKv8-cx3rw) about her
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Hawai'i's Last Queen (Documentary)

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Miya Masaoka is a Japanese-American New York-based composer and sound artist. She primarily works on and composes for the 21-string Japanese koto but many of her works have been translated to other string instruments
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Sherezade Panthaki is an Indian American operatic soprano who is known for her expertise in the performance of Baroque music. She has performed with orchestras in every major city in the US and currently heads the Vocal program at Mount Holyoke.
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And finally we have Japanese-American Broadway veterans Ann Harada, Thom Sesma, Kelvin Moon Loh and Austin Ku
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