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SIMULCAST: We the People: Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach’s Cello Suites

  • Becket Arts Center 7 Brooker Hill Road Becket, MA, 01223 United States (map)

UPDATE: SOLD OUT! If you registered, please arrive by 7:45pm otherwise your seat may be released.
The entire event will be held at the Becket Arts Center
 (7 Brooker Hill Rd, Becket).

Co-presented with the Becket Arts Center

We will start the evening at 6:30pm with a performance by Wahconah High School’s pep band, Blood Type: Blue. Then we'll enjoy wine & dessert while we wait for the livestream to start at 8pm.

Band performance: 6:30-7:30pm
Wine & dessert : 7:30-8pm
Livestream: 8-10:30pm

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. 

Live broadcast, one night only 

Enjoy a live simulcast of the event as it happens, from the Becket Athenaeum. Hear every note and get an up-close view of Yo-Yo Ma’s artistry.

People across Massachusetts will come together in libraries, theaters, and community spaces to enjoy a powerful, uplifting evening of music, free of charge and for one night only. 

Celebrate the power of connection, reflection, and imagination: join friends and neighbors for this must-see live broadcast! 

Other simulcast locations here.

o-Yo Ma in the Atacama Desert - photo by Austin Mann

Yo-Yo Ma in the Atacama Desert - photo by Austin Mann


Streamed live from Symphony Hall, Boston

Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston

Produced by Celebrity Series and THE OFFICE performing arts + film in collaboration with Opus 3 Artists and Sound Postings, the office of Yo-Yo Ma

We the People is made possible by Barbara & Amos Hostetter and the Barr Foundation with additional support provided by the Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation.

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