{"id":14852,"date":"2007-09-26T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/26\/yo-yo-ma-will-take-silk-road-to-china-martin-steinberg\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T13:50:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:50:21","slug":"yo-yo-ma-will-take-silk-road-to-china-martin-steinberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/yo-yo-ma-will-take-silk-road-to-china-martin-steinberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo-Yo Ma Will Take Silk Road to China &#8211; Martin Steinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAP reports that Yo-Yo Ma and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkroadproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silk Road Project <\/a>will play at the opening of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialolympics.org\/Special+Olympics+Public+Website\/English\/Compete\/World_Games\/2007_World_Summer_Games\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Special Olympics in Shanghai<\/a> next month:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/ALeqM5iRjVneRgi2v_zP-seheZsFUcQYqw.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/ALeqM5iRjVneRgi2v_zP-seheZsFUcQYqw.jpg','popup','width=190,height=151,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/ALeqM5iRjVneRgi2v_zP-seheZsFUcQYqw-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"125\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Aleqm5Irjvnergi2V Zp-Sehezsfucqyqw\" \/><\/a>Over the subsequent 10 days, Ma and his more than dozen colleagues will give concerts and workshops in Suzhou, Hong Kong and at Beijing&#8217;s Forbidden City, performing some of the songs on their newly released, best-selling CD &#8220;New Impossibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The master communicator &#8221; who was born to Chinese parents in France, moved to America as a boy and studied anthropology at Harvard rather than remain in a music conservatory &#8221; started the Silk Road Project in 1998 as a way of discovering similarities in diverse cultures and increasing understanding. <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gMf4cWkOqKkLU5VeqaWjcZzzywsw\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a><span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span>[Image: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, via AP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Forbidden City, performing some of the songs on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1076,6359,5469,1233],"class_list":["post-14852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-classical-music","tag-silk-road","tag-special-olympics","tag-yo-yo-ma","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yo-Yo Ma Will Take Silk Road to China - Martin Steinberg<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/yo-yo-ma-will-take-silk-road-to-china-martin-steinberg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yo-Yo Ma Will Take Silk Road to China - Martin Steinberg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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&#8217;s Forbidden City, performing some of the songs on [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/yo-yo-ma-will-take-silk-road-to-china-martin-steinberg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-09-26T20:50:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/ALeqM5iRjVneRgi2v_zP-seheZsFUcQYqw-tm.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/yo-yo-ma-will-take-silk-road-to-china-martin-steinberg\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/yo-yo-ma-will-take-silk-road-to-china-martin-steinberg\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"Yo-Yo Ma Will Take Silk Road to China &#8211; 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