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...Ensemble members, including Silk Road founder Yo-Yo Ma ’76, were playing with five Harvard students they had met only days earlier. An Armenian artist drew improvised images to accompany the music and projected them onto a huge screen. Few, if any, of the listeners had ever heard a song with string parts for a traditional Persian kamancheh...
...slightly chillier response initially greeted the ensemble on Wednesday night, when a “jam session” was held in Cabot House. Students from across the campus were invited to come and play with the members of the ensemble, and although Yo-Yo Ma was present, he didn’t play with the group...
...They never explicitly told me Yo-Yo was going to play, but I thought it was a reasonable assumption to make,” says Cabot House Master Jay Harris. But any mumblings of disappointment were soon swept away by the music and the spirit of improvisation. As Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09 put it, “When you’re playing with people doing such amazing things with their instruments, it makes you feel freer with your...
...phone that runs Apple's iTunes software and can hold around 100 songs. "We're working on some stuff," Jobs says, with his best, most irritating Cheshire-cat smile. "We're working on some stuff. We'll see." He looks at his watch--his lunch date, cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma, is waiting outside...
...honors, “it’s a very significant award for me,” Kumin says. “I am very humbled by it—especially by the company I now share.” Kumin joins the ranks of such past recipients as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, Jack Lemmon ’47, and John Updike ’54. Sixty-two years after a cocky English Department instructor told Kumin, “don’t write any more poems,” the University laud...