{"id":196,"date":"2009-02-24T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T18:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-02-24T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T18:10:41","slug":"celebrity_celebrity-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/02\/celebrity_celebrity-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Celebrity-Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After discussing the recent <i>Onion <\/i>article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/opinion\/if_itzhak_perlman_is_performing?utm_source=b-section\">If Itzhak Perlman Is Performing On TV Right Now, Who is Feeding My Cat?<\/a>&#8221; (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/10\/talk-to-me-about-digital-retai.html\">Denise<\/a>)<br \/>\nat lunch yesterday, my friend Maureen and I debated who was more famous: Itzhak Perlman or Yo-Yo Ma. I argued for IP, and she<br \/>\nfor Yo-Yo.<\/p>\n<p>Post King&#8217;s Singers&#8217; concert in Princeton last night,<br \/>\nI decided to obtain some hard evidence on the subject and polled three male Woodrow<br \/>\nWilson School students at the Dbar. &#8220;Name a classical musician&#8221; was my<br \/>\ntest. Two out of the three said Yo-Yo Ma. (The third proudly proclaimed<br \/>\n&#8220;Hilary Hahn!&#8221;, which I suspect directly correlates to his being the only<br \/>\nguy in the group I knew.)<\/p>\n<p>You out there reading this &#8211; you&#8217;re probably in the industry, and I don&#8217;t think we can count ourselves. But can you ask your friends? Or total strangers, like I did? Who is the first (and perhaps only) classical musician the world-at-large can name, and why do we think that is? What does Yo-Yo have that Itzhak doesn&#8217;t, and vice versa? <\/p>\n<p>N.B. The Woodrow Wilson boys elaborated that they thought Yo-Yo was the famous-er of the two because his name is both easier and &#8220;more fun&#8221; to pronounce. Thanks, Future International Conflict Resolving Minds of America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discussing the recent Onion article entitled &#8220;If Itzhak Perlman Is Performing On TV Right Now, Who is Feeding My Cat?&#8221; (thanks, Denise) at lunch yesterday, my friend Maureen and I debated who was more famous: Itzhak Perlman or Yo-Yo Ma. I argued for IP, and she for Yo-Yo. Post King&#8217;s Singers&#8217; concert in Princeton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}