Yo-Yo Ma performs Gershwin’s Prelude No. 1 on Monday with the help of Late Show house pianist Jon Batiste. This performance didn’t actually air (another one did), but was instead a “web exclusive.”
It sounds like they could have rehearsed this another half a dozen times, but let’s hope it at least signals the return of classical music to late night television.
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As one who remembers back when Horowitz and Rubinstein were household names, and guys like Horacio Gutierrez were booked on Johnny Carson, it is very good to see classical music – and ballet – treated like part of mainstream culture again, and not some hoity-toity ratings killer.