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...entire performance was a kind of false climax, however thrilling the audience may have found it. Although the Silk Road players have since packed up their neys, santurs, and violins to leave for Japan, the Silk Road Project (SRP) has only just begun its five-year residency at Harvard, one that may lead to the development of a new Core course—and a serious reevaluation of the way the university addresses multi-cultural and interdisciplinary studies...
...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...
It’s an ambitious ideology, considering the scope of the titular Silk Road. The term is shorthand for an intricate system of trade routes that stretched from Japan to the Mediterranean, with stops throughout Central Asia and the Middle East, from roughly 1600 B.C.E. until 8th century...
Along its pathways, merchants freely exchanged both goods and ideas. In terms of its importance to world culture, Folger Fund Professor of History and East Asian historian Andrew D. Gordon ’74 says the development of the Silk Road was a critical cultural landmark: “The Crusades, the Black Plague, the Renaissance—it ranks right up there with all of them...
...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?...