Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs during Armistice ceremony at Arc de Triomphe

[demmiblue]

[nmgaucho]

1. Too classy for Trump, he prefers this crap

[nmgaucho]

2. Was just listening to this earlier today...sublime and contemplative

[japple]

3. Brilliant performance.

I didn't see this event (don't have tv) and am wondering who the young people in black with gold scarves were and what message they delivered.

[libdem4life]

4. The Best ... Class ... seldom see a cello featured.

Guess who was visibly and painfully unutterably bored?

[cab67]

5. he probably thinks the US won the war.

We played a role in ending WW1, but it was mostly won by the French.

It's a disgrace that he represents our country at an event such as this.

Should add - I can't imagine a better instrument to commemorate the end of war that killed millions, only to have the "peace" set in such a way that the next war, killing many millions more, was inevitable. (Maybe an oboe would have been as evocative? Don't know.)

[Haggis for Breakfast]

9. Haven't seen a cello since Jackie Kennedy

invited Pablo Casals to the WH. And NOBODY looked bored.

[iluvtennis]

6. So nice. thanks for the post.

[Blue Owl]

7. Sarabande from J.S. Bach's 5th Cello Suite

Music with depth like this, played in front of tRump, is like pearls before swine...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

10. Was YoYo Ma playing cello . . . .

In the rain ????

[xxqqqzme]

12. Hard to keep a

stringed instrument in tune in wet or humid conditions.

[alfredo]

11. I noticed everyone was watching Yo Yo Ma except Trump.

[angstlessk]

8. It was as if every low note depicts the dead..