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World-renowned musician Yo-Yo Ma ’76 will return to Harvard next fall, this time bringing with him musicians from across Asia and the Middle East as part of an initiative called the Silk Road Project...
...multi-year project, announced last Wednesday, is a collaboration between the Silk Road Project, Inc., the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Harvard College, and draws together influences from territories along the historical silk trading road, which stretched from China to the Mediterranean. Ma will be the artistic director of the program, and will have his first residency at Harvard from Sept...
...Ma seeks to use the project to bring the universities an interdisciplinary approach to music, he said in a statement...
...Ma said in the statement that the project explores the creativity found in the intersections of different cultures and musical traditions and the potential of future collaboration...
Laurence H.S. Coderre ’07, a joint Music and East Asian Studies concentrator, said she is excited for the contributions Ma will make to the Harvard curriculum and hopes that the Silk Road Project will provide an opportunity to study what she said was a somewhat neglected topic within the Music and East Asian Studies departments at Harvard...