Lemon Meringue Pie is the Key to Greatness.

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Lemon Meringue Pie is the Key to Greatness.

When I first got to New York I went to a concert where a little 5 year old child

was sitting on a table playing a Bach cello suite on a violin turned into a mini Cello.

10 years later I met the Child now 15 at the Marlboro music festival. It was Yo

Yo Ma; the famous Chinese American Cellist. Most Marlboro musicians stuck up

their noses at the classical guitar but Yo Yo didn’t. He came into the studio where

I was practicing and asked all kinds of questions as we were both practicing the

same Bach suite. I played it on the classical guitar and he played it on the cello.

My late husband was also a cellist and Yo Yo attended some of his classes. This

was one of the first times Yo Yo was without his parents. Having been overly

restricted as a child he was really breaking out and as a consequence playing better

than ever. Today Yo Yo Ma is one of the top Chinese musicians in the world. I’ve

not seen him since we were all at the Marlboro festival. The last time I saw him in

person, we had a lemon meringue pie fight in the Marlboro cafeteria. There was

another cellist, Jeffrey Solow who was also in the pie fight and is a well respected

chamber musician in Philadelphia. I’m sure it was the lemon meringue pie smeared

from ear to ear and everywhere else that made Yoyo such a great cellist.