Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach

    All Episodes 1998
    TV-G

    • Ended
    • 1998-04-01T05:00:00Z
    • 42m
    • 42m (1 episode)
    • Canada
    • English
    Cellist Yo-Yo Ma stars in a series of six short films based on Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.

    6 episodes

    Series Premiere

    1998-04-01T05:00:00Z

    1x01 Suite #1 - The Music Garden

    Series Premiere

    1x01 Suite #1 - The Music Garden

    • 1998-04-01T05:00:00Z42m

    "The Music Garden," a documentary about designing a waterfront garden in Toronto. With landscape artist Julie Moir Messervy and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Directed by Kevin McMahon.

    "The Sound of the Carceri," a film melding Bach's cello music, played by Yo-Yo Ma, with computer-generated images of Renaissance architect Giovanni Piranesi's etchings. Directed by Francois Girard.

    Yo-Yo Ma collaborates with choreographer Mark Morris on a new dance, entitled "Falling Down Stairs," performed by the Mark Morris Dance Group. Directed by Barbara Willis Sweete.

    1x04 Suite #4- Sarabande

    • no air date42m

    Filmmaker Atom Egoyan collaborates with cellist Yo-Yo Ma on a film titled “Sarabande,” about the effects of music on the lives of five characters. Ma plays himself. With Lori Singer, Don McKellar, Jan Rubes and Arsinee Khanjian.

    Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and artist Tamasaburo Bando create a Kabuki dance entitled "Struggle for Hope." Performed by Bando and directed by Niv Fichman.

    Season Finale

    1x06 Suite #6- Six Gestures

    • no air date42m

    Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate "Six Gestures," recalling Bach's life during 1717-23, when he wrote the suites for unaccompanied cello. With Tom McCamus as Bach. Directed by Patricia Rozema.

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