Yo-Yo Ma Performs "Spiegel im Spiegel"
Clip: Season 51 Episode 16 | 2m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Yo-Yo Ma performs Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel, with images by the James Webb telescope
Yo-Yo Ma performs a section of Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel," with images provided by the James Webb telescope.
Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...
Yo-Yo Ma Performs "Spiegel im Spiegel"
Clip: Season 51 Episode 16 | 2m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Yo-Yo Ma performs a section of Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel," with images provided by the James Webb telescope.
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It's a piece by an Estonian composer, which he wrote in 1978, and he was going through a difficult time trying to find a different way of composing, and he was looking for for a simpler style.
For example, the piano part you have bell like sounds.
The cello part really both asks and sometimes answers questions.
The piece is called Mirror in Mirrors.
And so if you think of putting an object between two mirrors, what do you get?
You get to infinity.
Have you played it before?
Well, this is a piece that we played actually in Paris at UNESCO, which is right next door to the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency made a lot of the equipment that is on the James Webb telescope.
And so we played it displaying images that the James Webb telescope captured as a statement about the infinitude of the universe.
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