Jookin’ on the Great Wall
Jookin’ is a style of street dance that originated in Memphis, Tennessee, and has been perfected by a young dancer from Memphis named Charles Riley, nicknamed Lil Buck. Last year, Lil Buck was invited to join a cultural...
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Wu Man: Tradition, on a Fresh Note
Pipa player Wu Man was recently recognized as Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. The New York Times reviews her recent performance at Symphony Space: Newly named instrumentalist of the year by Musical America, which...
When China and the West Meet, Who Bows Deeper?
in the Atlantic, Orville Schell uses a recent performance in Beijing by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and actress Meryl Streep to illustrate a subtle power play between China and the U.S. which has persisted for hundreds of years and which...
Video: Wu Tong (吴彤) and Yo Yo Ma Perform Yanzi (燕子)
Vocalist Wu Tong has a diverse musical background, from his start as a vocalist for the Beijing rock band 轮回 (Again) to his current gig singing with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and as a soloist with the New York...
Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble Heads for the Proms
The Times interviews cellist Yo-Yo Ma about his Silk Road Project prior to a concert in London: But in Ma’s mind there’s a much deeper raison d’être for the Silk Road. He is acutely conscious of having personal roots in three...
Yo-Yo Ma Will Take Silk Road to China – Martin Steinberg
AP reports that Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project will play at the opening of the Special Olympics in Shanghai next month: Over the subsequent 10 days, Ma and his more than dozen colleagues will give concerts and workshops in Suzhou, Hong Kong and at Beijing’s Forbidden City, performing some of the songs on […]
Yo-Yo Ma to help turn city into Silk Road – Miriam Di Nunzio and Andrew Hermann
From the Chicago Sun-Times (link): “Good things happen when you meet strangers,” says renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Today Ma, along with city officials and reps from dozens of Chicago cultural institutions, will announce a yearlong fine arts festival that organizers hope will bring folks of all sorts together — and create good things across the […]
Meline Toumani: A Silk Road That Leads Somewhere Truly New
From the New York Times: When Yo-Yo Ma began work on the Silk Road Project seven years ago, the music world stood by with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. Why was Mr. Ma, known for his cello interpretations of Bach and Brahms, suddenly jumping on the world-music bandwagon? Would the involvement of musicians from […]
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