Sneak peak at Peewee's recent Bach Suites CD
Here is the Press Kit Photo for his new CD, "The 9 Suites for Cello of J.S. Bach"
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Reviews -
"Apparently, Mr. Mah is a Bach scholar and has kept modestly quiet about it until now. His recent discovery of 3 additional suites for cello are astounding!. These suites were originally written for a cellist to perform but as the letters of JS Bach indicate, he fell ill just days before the premier. Bach immediately had to transcribe these suites for whatever instrumentalist was available at the time. This happened to be an master of the Naseflote..the predecessor to the modern Kazoo. The 7-9 suites in this incarnation were literally laughed off the stage and Bach vowed to burn the manuscript. Thankfully, the were hidden from the composer by Anna Magdalena and thus preserved from a fiery fate.
Mr. Mah ressurects the 7th-9th suites in period style as he miraculously causes his cello to sound like a Kazoo (not unlike his own speaking voice)"
Classical CD Magazine gives this CD 2 stars.
$16.99
CD1010101-101 Niponno Gramaphone
Available at Towering Records
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From the Guad Magazine...
Stranded on the Autobahn in Germany, Cellist Pee Wee Mah abandon's his rental BMW and takes to more traditional means of finding transportation to his concert with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Ever clowning, he displays his formidable cello thumb callous.
Mah has just completed a tour of South America, South Africa and Southeast Asia and is rounding it off with a whirlwind tour of Europe.
Of note, in his Paris Recital, his C string of his KAY cello snapped in the middle of the finale of the Kodaly Sonata, Op. 8. Mah looked up and screamed "ARRRRGH!" and began jumping up and down waving his hands as if he were panicking. Bad cello! Bad cello! he declared... as he skipped off stage only to return later with a new cello. He restarted the movement and finished to a standing ovation and a roar of approval from the otherwise, hard to impress Parisienne audience.
DISCLAIMER:
Cellist Pee Wee Mah has been misunderstood and mistaken for another similar celebrity (Pee Wee Herman). Though their early careers are almost identical and they share the same first name, they in fact, not the same person.
Additionally, Mr. Mah, as a cellist is not to be mistaken with eminent Yo Yo Ma. Their last names are pronounced the same way and their musical careers have many parallels, but they are not to be mistaken for each other.
Mr. Mah is a truly unique cellist who combines his comedic, witty schtick-like humor with profoundly serious classical music, a juxtaposition of which is unprecedented.