Tag: Silk Road ensemble

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    Rite of spring

    Crowds top 15,000 over the festival’s four days.

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    Star turn for Harvard arts

    Diane Paulus honors Harvard’s legacy of artists with an evening of entertainment.

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    Who needs answers?

    The 2015 Arts and Passion-Driven Learning Institute traced connections among inspiration, imagination, and creative work.

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    Path to understanding

    During a panel discussion at Radcliffe, musicians in the diverse Silk Road Ensemble explained how they combine instruments, mesh traditions to make new music.

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    Journeys through song

    The Silk Road Ensemble was back at Harvard for a residency with faculty, students, and crafting new compositions using the Ganges River as inspiration.

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    The quest for common ground

    Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other panelists probed the factors that can lead to “cultural citizenship,” including migration trends, exclusionism, and individual openness.

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    A call for creative know-how

    The Dean’s Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge aims to harness the University’s entrepreneurial spirit to help promote and sustain the arts.

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    Inspiring as well as educating

    Led by members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, 83 teachers from around the world convened at Harvard last weekend for workshops and discussions to explore how the arts can help engage students across a range of subjects.

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    Sounds of the Silk Road

    The Silk Road Ensemble concluded its January Harvard residence with a Learning From Performers concert featuring four newly commissioned works.

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    Arts prove intensive

    Across campus, students participated in a series of arts intensives during January’s Wintersession that let them tap their creative talents.

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    On the Silk Road again

    The Silk Road Ensemble, a group of musicians from around the world led by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, was at Harvard for a weeklong residency, helping students to compose, playing with undergraduates, exploring the link between business and the arts, and discussing arts and education.

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    Gift of opportunity

    Harvard President Drew Faust gathered Monday (April 25) with faculty, staff, students, and other members of the University community to celebrate the largest gift dedicated to the study of the humanities in Harvard history.

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    Silk Road Project moves to Harvard

    The Silk Road Project will move its headquarters to Harvard University this summer, strengthening a partnership between the University and the world-renowned organization that promotes innovation and learning through the arts.

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    A march toward the arts

    The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

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    The Silk Road Ensemble

    Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble perform during Learning From Performers, sponsored by Office for the Arts, September 2005.

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