EXPLORATIONS – May 29, 2002: Silk Road Folklife Festival
28 May 2002
This year, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival is celebrating the living traditions of the Silk Road, the evidence of the centuries of exchange. It will also show the influence of these cultures on American life today. The festival will be held for ten days beginning June twenty-sixth on the grassy Mall area in the center of Washington. The festival is called “The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust.” |
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We Are The World (Cellist Yo-Yo Ma)
January 30, 2005. By Gerri Hirshey
I think one of the best lessons that I received from my parents is to have the ability to understand the world beyond yourself,” says Yo-Yo Ma. “Since my parents were immigrants, they knew a number of different worlds. There’s always an awareness that you’re a part of things much bigger than yourself.”At 49, Ma—ceaseless world traveler, musical ambassador and the greatest cellist on Earth—has been called “the Marco Polo of music.” He has played for bushmen in the Kalahari Desert, for Carnegie Hall connoisseurs and with indigenous artists from Iran, Mongolia, South Korea, China and Azerbaijan. He has recorded albums with Appalachian fiddlers, an Argentinian tango guitarist and a tabla drummer from India. |
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FAMED CELLIST YO-YO MA BRINGS ACCLAIMED SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE TO HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Ma Leads Musical Journey Along Ancient Trade Route
KCRW's Tom Schnabel Hosts
KCRW'S WORLD FESTIVAL
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2005 AT 7 PM
Sponsored by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Internationally renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma returns to the Hollywood Bowl with the Silk Road Ensemble as part of KCRW's World Festival on Sunday, August 7, at 7 p.m. Now in the fifth year of their internationally acclaimed collaboration, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble continue to explore the musical cultures that flourished along the Silk Road - the ancient trade route between China and the West - with their latest recording for Sony Classical, entitled Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon, which spent 12 weeks at #1 on the Billboard's charts. |
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Khongorzul Ganbaatar began her professional musical studies at the age of twenty-two. She was raised in the Mongolian province of Khentii where singing urtiin duu [OOR tin DOO] (a Mongolian vocal genre, literally Long song is ubiquitous as entertainment. The Long song ( Mongolian: Уртын дуу, Urtyn duu) is a central element of the traditional Music of Mongolia. This genre is not called "Long song" because the songs are long (even if some of them are), but because each syllable of text is extended for a long duration. A four-minute song may only consist of ten words. UNESCO declared the Mongolian Long Song one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2005. |
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