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...musicians were interested in participating in university courses, conducting workshops, master classes and giving public performances,” says Freid. “We were all interested in exploring the Silk Road from an art history, ethnomusicology, language, and civilization perspective...
After talks with various Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) officials, the SRP and FAS issued a joint press release on March 30 announcing that the Silk Road Project would be in residency at Harvard from the fall of 2005 until the fall of 2010. The initiative would include various performances and projects at Harvard during that period...
...time, FAS had its own reasons to be interested in a group like Silk Road—the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review had been, and still is, debating the future of interdisciplinary and international study at the College. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who has long been a proponent of international study in the new curriculum, said in the March press release that the residency had come “at just the right moment...
...first stage of the residency were set for September 26 to October 1, but little else was set in stone. The press release announced a determination to “cooperate on the development of new interdisciplinary curricula in the arts, literature, history, and music of the Silk Road regions.” Such a program was markedly more open-ended and potentially all-encompassing than previous artistic residencies, such as that of the Ying String Quartet, which has held residency at Harvard since...
According to Shelemay, the Ensemble played for the class, had brunch with the students, and discussed the Silk Road. “Our theme this semester is music and mobility,” Shelemay says, “and [the Silk Road] is the perfect case study...