Blog #9

This article was first published in January 2014 on the World Post, an online news and blog site that was created through a collaboration between Huffington post and Berggruen institute on Governance. This article was written by Yo-Yo Ma, an accomplished Cellist and songwriter. In his bio he has won over 17 Grammy Awards and multiple awards for art, and economic forum, and a medal of freedom. My purpose for reading this text is to better my understanding between the connections of science and art.

The point of this essay is to explain why art is so important and so connected to the “Hard sciences.” That the world is complicated and without the “necessary edges” understanding the importance of it’s opposite then they can become unstable. As he says “To reach excellence… need to filter imagination through the discipline of knowledge.” They work together but not well apart.

Unfamiliar words:
Neural: relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
He uses it to help describe the way our right and left hemispheres work in regards to our neural pathways.
Repertoire: a stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform.
He uses it to describe something any Cellist would have knowledge of.
Meridians: A (geographical) meridian (or line of longitude) is the half of an imaginary great circle.
He is using this to describe a type of pathway that connects the “Necessary edges.”