“Holiday shopping can be exhausting. And stressful. But a new video making the rounds on YouTube shows a smiling, if somewhat surprised crowd of shoppers after Yo-Yo Ma begins to perform at a downtown Chicago mall on Tuesday night,” reads an unsigned Wednesday (12/11) post at WQXR’s blog. “The setting is the Shops at North Bridge, a glossy mall on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. At about 7:50 into this video of a pop-up concert by members of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the cellist turns up and begins playing. ‘We just came to Chicago for like 24 hours and I’m seeing Yo-Yo Ma. It’s so awesome,’ shopper Laura Marier told CBS Chicago. The event was a promotion for Citizen Musician, a community outreach and education project that Ma leads with the Chicago Symphony, where he is a creative consultant. The Chicago Civic Orchestra, featured here, is the CSO’s training ensemble.” Click here to watch video of the performance.
Posted December 12, 2013
