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Yo-Yo Ma: Tiny Desk Concert

Watch the 19-time Grammy winner return to his lifelong passion for J.S. Bach, playing music from the Cello Suites and offering advice on the art of incremental learning.
Yo-Yo Ma performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 25, 2018 (Samantha Clark/NPR).

Why did Laurence Olivier return so often to Shakespeare's Othello? Why did Ansel Adams keep photographing the Grand Canyon? Obsessed or awestruck, artists revisit great inspirations because they believe there is yet another story to tell – about life, about themselves.

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