Fat Kid with a Cello: Related Stories and Resources
This Related Stories and Resources page is where you can find additional material related to the main story, Fat Kid with a Cello, by Terence C. Gannon. These items are presented with the most recent item at the top. You can also listen to the original essay on your favourite podcasting platform where it appeared as part of the Not There Yet podcast read by the author.
This 20-year-old British cellist has sparked a global music phenomenon, PBS NewsHour, February 14, 2019 by Jeffrey Brown. A beautifully made piece about Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Two billion people have already seen him — he performed and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding — but this paints a much more detailed picture of the artist as a well-rounded, young man of glorious talent. After the horrors on display in the first 50 minutes of the NewsHour this evening, it was an oasis in a desert of bad news. Delightful.
Yo-Yo Ma — Bach: Cello Suite №1 in G Major, Prélude (Official Video) Vevo/YouTube, January 14, 2019 performed by Yo-Yo Ma. In what is a remarkable coincidence, a few days after I published Fat Kid with a Cello, which references maestro Ma playing the Prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite №1, a beautifully made new video of exactly that appears on Vevo/YouTube. It’s impossible to watch and listen without being moved.
