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Rufus Wainwright, Kathleen Hanna, Yo La Tengo Celebrate the Radical Music of Yoko Ono
['Katherine Turman']
Rolling Stone
“I’d like to dedicate this to the Beatles,” Yo La Tengo guitarist and singer Ira Kaplan said from the stage, introducing Yoko Ono’s 1973 song “What Did I Do!”
Performed mostly with the world’s coolest house band in Yo La Tengo, the 19-song set saw iconoclastic singers and musicians add their own flavor to Ono originals.
The concert was presented in conjunction with the museum’s ongoing special exhibition, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind.
(Helfrich had more in common with Ono than anyone else on stage: She’s Ono’s granddaughter, her mother being Yoko Ono’s daughter Kyoko Ono Cox.)
As a singer, Ono’s vocal approach and tone may not be traditionally crowd-pleasing, but her wishes and hopes for humanity have resonated across the decades.