The Music Garden (Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach)

Consisting of six one-hour films - conceived by cellist Yo-Yo Ma - this series of films presents a multi-faceted celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Suites for Unaccompanied Cello”. The film “The Music Garden” opens this series with an exploration of music as interpreted through gardening on a grand scale. This film follows the efforts of Yo-Yo Ma and landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy to create a formal garden, based on J.S. Bach's “First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello”, in the centre of Boston. Inspired by the music to reawaken the nature buried beneath the concrete of a modern city, Yo-Yo and Julie are a study in optimism as they set off to convince politicians, financiers, bureaucrats and planners to join in their great dream.