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...means his presence is “necessarily limited.”Through its “Learning from Performers” series, the OFA brings well-known artists to campus to run workshops and master classes throughout the year. Past guests have included Quincy Jones, Lynn Harrell, and Yo-Yo Ma ’76. In addition, members of the Ying Quartet, who act as Blodgett Artists in Residence, are available to help student instrumentalists a few weeks out of every semester. But while these events are unique, one-time opportunities for musical enrichment, Harvard musicians...
...associate, will be performed at the New England Regional of the American College Dance Festival next February at Boston University.Hazle’s piece is particularly unique because it will be accompanied live by Bong Inh Koh ’08, one of the students hand-picked by Yo-Yo Ma to perform with him in the Silk Road Festival earlier this year. Koh will be playing the Bach Chaconne on the cello to the contemporary number.“[Divelbliss’s piece] is a more minimalist type of modern, accompanied by techno music...
...letter was, in many ways, a roll call of Harvard’s key players, with shout outs going to most (though not all) of the University’s deans as well as notable alumni involved in University projects, including Yo-Yo Ma ’76, founder of the Silk Road Project, and Frank O. Gehry, who has consulted on Harvard’s master plan for the Allston campus...
...Director Jack Megan feels Ma’s decision not to play was, very likely, a part of the cellist’s general vision for the residency. “Yo-Yo does not want it to be about Yo-Yo,” says Megan. “His desire is to make sure that the actual Silk Road work comes first...
...Yo-Yo Ma writes that the journey, however uncertain, is going to be made rich, not so much by the Ensemble, but by what Harvard students can offer up. “From the sight-reading abilities of the students who came to the [reading sessions], 95% of whom were not music majors, to the great questions and comments we got from students in the classes, to the amazing enthusiasm and energy of the jam session, everywhere we went we could feel the intelligence and open-mindedness of Harvard undergraduates,” Ma wrote...