We the People: Celebrating Our Shared Humanity

Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach's Cello Suites

Symphony Hall

Fri. November 21, 8:00 PM

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Due to popular demand, this performance is currently sold out.

This November, Yo-Yo Ma will perform Bach’s complete suites for solo cello for the first time in one evening at home, in Boston. It’s music that he has offered to communities on all six continents, in moments of joy and in times of tragedy. For him it exemplifies how culture helps us to seek truth, build trust, and act in service.

This is more than a concert for Yo-Yo: it is an invitation to listen to each other and the world around us, to celebrate our community and the ways in which people all over the world—and here in Massachusetts—are bringing us together, creating shared space for connection, reflection, and action, and imagining a better future.

Sharing the experience
Experience the performance with your community: Celebrity Series and Yo-Yo Ma have offered 1,000 tickets to young musicians and other community groups, inviting many to Symphony Hall for the first time.

Simulcast: We The People

Watch the concert for free at in a community near you. There are venue partners across Massachusetts from Wellfleet to North Adams!

Program Details

Program notes to come.

Featured Artist

Yo-Yo Ma

“Soft sounds around me suggested that others were caught up in similarly strong emotions. How Ma has this effect on people is a mystery: I suspect it has to do with the warmth he brings to music that is fundamentally beyond comprehension. He makes the godlike human.”
The New Yorker

Videos

Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, From the Great Smoky Mountains

Symphony Hall Information

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Ticketing FAQs

Our Celebrity Series subscribers have the option to exchange out of the performance until noon on Thursday, November 20th. After noon, we will no longer be processing exchanges, and will not have any more tickets opening up.
Please be wary of tickets you see available online, as we have seen fraudulent tickets being sold at huge markups on third-party websites. Celebrity Series of Boston and Boston Symphony Hall are the only authorized ticket sellers for this event.