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...origins of the concept behind the Project lie right here at Harvard College. Ma wrote in an e-mail, “Through being at Harvard I realized how incomplete my education was, and that for the rest of my life, I would be encountering worlds I didn’t know how to deal with. Harvard taught me how to deal with new knowledge and how to ally myself with people who know things I don?...
...after having attained world fame as a concert cellist, Ma put that awareness into practice by establishing the Silk Road Project. Funded by private donors, the group, as their artistic mission statement puts it, “acts as an umbrella organization and common resource for a number of artistic, cultural and educational programs,” focus on the Silk Road of antiquity...
...honor the Silk Road’s legacy of fusion among Eastern and Western cultures, Ma and a rotating group of musicians from around the world play traditional and original music in concert and host educational events. They’ve recorded three albums and traveled from Manhattan to Kyrgyzstan. But according to SRP Chief Executive Officer Laura Freid, the organization agreed last year on the need to “look for a new intellectual home?...
Harvard was an obvious choice—not only is Ma a graduate, but so is SRP Executive Board member Judith A. Goldberg , who graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991. Freid, too, has a connection; she’s a former editor of Harvard Magazine...
...Arts Leaders Luncheon,” hosted by the Office for the Arts (OFA) and held at the Faculty Club. The OFA invited a laundry list of extracurricular artistic organizations to attend, from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to Christian a cappella group Under Construction. Ma gave an opening address, and a member of the SRP was seated at each table...