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MUSIC REVIEW

Yo-Yo Ma and ‘Goat Rodeo Sessions’

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 02, 2012

What’s the big deal about a string quartet playing on a Tuesday night in Boston? Granted, this particular string quartet was anchored by superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma. And the rest of the lineup was a little unorthodox, not to mention bluegrass: fiddler Stuart Duncan, Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers mandolinist Chris Thile, and double-bassist Edgar Meyer. And NCM Fathom and Sony Masterworks were cinecasting the first of the evening’s two sessions live to more than 400 theaters nationwide.

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