Silk Road Project

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Name: Silk Road Project

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7 articles

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Paul Simon

Yo Yo Ma, Paul Simon to be awarded Polar Music Prize

Graceland singer-songwriter Paul Simon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma will each receive one million Swedish Krona (C$145,000) at a royal awards ceremony in the Swedish capital in August after being named the 2012 recipients at a news conference in Stockholm on ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Citytv ]

Entities: Paul Simon, Yo-yo Ma, Polar Music Prize

First Reported Apr 22 2012 - Updated Apr 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Yo-Yo Ma brings Brazil alive

The smooth, sophisticated styles of Brazilian music will be celebrated when renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Thursday with pianist Kathryn Stott and guitarists Odair and Sergio Assad.Ma, who has explored many musical cultures, said hes had a love affair ... [ Published Apr 22 2012 by Reno Gazette-Journal ]

Entities: Sergio Assad, Yo-yo Ma, Brazil, Kathryn Stott

First Reported Apr 12 2012 - Updated Apr 12 2012 - 2 Documents

Yo-yo Ma

Concert review

When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, he does so using an instrument that is actually older than Bach’s work itself.Ma’s cello, the legendary Davidov Stradivarius, was constructed in 1712, some five years before Bach began ... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Agoura Hills Acorn ]

Entities: Yo-yo Ma, Benny Thomasson, Leon Kirchner

First Reported Apr 09 2012 - Updated Apr 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Mark O'Connor

Yo-Yo Ma Lecture/Performance at the Granada Theatre

Although the lecture portion of Yo-Yo Ma’s performance at the Granada Theatre was given strictly in prose, the great musician and master cellist still managed to fulfill Sir Phillip Sidney’s classic definition of poetry by producing “a speaking picture ... [ Published Apr 09 2012 by Santa Barbara Independent ]

Entities: Yo-yo Ma, Benny Thomasson, Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer

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"When I started working on it, I started getting scared," she says. "We have an Andean band and a classically trained choir. It could sound really cheesy. It could sound like a bad movie score in which you have these boy sopranos and the jungle music of Ghana, and you just want to go, 'Ahhhh!'"

Gabriela Lena Frank's musical flights of imagination [Los Angeles Times - Apr 20 2012]

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Yo Yo Ma, Paul Simon to be awarded Polar Music ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Citytv ]
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Gabriela Lena Frank's musical flights of imagin... [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Los Angeles Times ]
Concert review [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Agoura Hills Acorn ]
Cellist relates his life in music at T.O. Civic... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Thousand Oaks Acorn ]
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