Thank you, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, for bringing not just Yo-Yo Ma, but Misty Copeland to late night television. Has a cultural figure been given so much air time on network TV since the days of Johnny Carson? Ma sat in with the band all night, playing Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” Gershwin’s “Prelude No. 1” and a jazzy rendition of Saint-Saëns’ “The Swan,” with ample plugs from Colbert for Ma’s new album, “Songs from the Arc of Life.”

If you missed it, here are a few highlights, including two and half minutes of Bach for unaccompanied cello (if you don’t count the dancing):

http://time.com/4062685/misty-copeland-yo-yo-ma-late-show/

I don’t expect it to change the late night landscape, but how nice to see something elevating on television for a change. It makes me feel good about the world for a few minutes.