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At the George Enescu International Festival, a pair of new shows crossing genres and reinventing the classics, with mostly enlightening results.

Yo-Yo Ma returns to Pittsburgh for searing performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. The enjoyable program also includes a tribute to Fred Rogers. 

Some 37 years after his Singapore debut, the cellist revisits Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto with the Singapore Symphony and Han-Na Chang. 

It is a testament to Ma’s power as a musical force that, despite the typhoon-related weather raging outside, the auditorium was packed to capacity.