The Silk Road Project in the News
Off the Map: Silk Road takes some new twists and turns
February 11, 2010 – Chicago Reader
Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble to perform in Taiwan in April
February 9, 2010 – Taiwan News
Off the Map: "as unique a CD as the Silk Road Ensemble has yet to produce"
February 8, 2010 – The Clarion Issue
Yo-Yo Ma: Ready for the Fire
January 18, 2010 – San Francisco Classical Voice
Off the Map: Not like anything else you've ever heard
January 2010 – RootsWorld
Off the Map: Magnificent Silk Road
December 11, 2009 – World Music Central
Off the Map: CD review (in Flemish)
December 5, 2009 – De Standaard
Off the Map: Wired gift guide
December 4, 2009 – Oregonian Wu Man's music aims to bridge East and West (video)
November 19, 2009 – PBS NewsHour
Off the Map: Music that makes your mind seem like it has just been born
November 18, 2009 – Sonic Boomers When Strangers Meet one of the decade's 50 most important recordings
November 16, 2009 – NPR's All Things Considered
Silk Road Ensemble goes off the map
November 16, 2009 – World Music Central
The Silk Road: the original information superhighway
November 15, 2009 – Staten Island Advance
Hit the 'Road,' camel and all
November 14, 2009 – New York Post
Exhibition review: Traveling the Silk Road at the American Museum of Natural History
November 13, 2009 – New York Times Off the Map: CD review
November 12, 2009 – Casual Listening blog
Off the Map: The proof is in the pudding
November 9, 2009 – Blog Critics music review
Off the Map: The Silk Road Ensemble's most adventurous album
November 7, 2009 – Lucid Culture blog Off the Map: Listening to Angel Lam
November 5, 2009 – Carnegie Hall's Ancient Paths, Modern Voices blog Off the Map: Picks of the week (audio podcast)
November 5, 2009 – WNYC's Soundcheck
Reaching the end of the Silk Road
October 30, 2009 – Harvard Crimson
Wu Man takes the pipa down an ancient path
October 24, 2009 – Los Angeles Times Off the Map: On first album without Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble still shines
October 24, 2009 – eMusic.com Cellist Yo-Yo Ma receives Boston leadership award
October 23, 2009 – SAMPAN Silk Road Project residency emphasized education and music
October 23, 2009 – Harvard Crimson
Deep into indigo: Yo-Yo Ma explores passion-driven education
October 21, 2009 – Harvard Gazette
Off the Map: Silk Road Ensemble thread their way through new lands and sounds
October 13, 2009 – Spinner.com Fijnzinnige muzikale reis (in Dutch)
September 16, 2009 – De Standaard (Belgium) Last night of the Proms at Royal Albert Hall: Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble was glorious
September 14, 2009 – Times (U.K.) Last of the late night Proms: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
September 13, 2009 – Londonist Concert review: Prom 75, The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
September 13, 2009 – Guardian (U.K.) Gig at the end of the earth: The brilliant cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road-inspired Prom has been 10 well-traveled years in the making
August 30, 2009 – Independent (U.K.) Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble heads for the Proms
August 22, 2009 – Times (U.K.)
Interview with composer Ljova
July 14, 2009 – Composition: Today
Famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs in New York (video)
June 18, 2009 – New Tang Dynasty Television
Concert review: A glittery cast's cultural exchange
June 11, 2009 – New York Times Concert review: Tale of love and death along the fabled Silk Road
June 8, 2009 – New York Times
Weekend Arts: Silk Road Ensemble concerts
June 5, 2009 – New York Times
Paula Zahn interview: Yo-Yo Ma (video)
May 29, 2009 – WNET Thirteen Sunday Arts
Yo-Yo Ma, Golijv highlight ASO's Latin festival
May 24, 2009 – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Traveling the Silk Road with Yo-Yo Ma
May 20, 2009 – National Geographic Traveler, Intelligent Travel Blog Cellist Yo-Yo Ma sees no musical genres
May 4, 2009 – Houston Chronicle
Behind the Silk Road Project: the Cellist who’s Changing World Culture
April 23, 2009 – AARP’s "Live and Learn"
The Silk Road Ensemble will perform free concert in celebration of Lincoln Center’s 50th anniversary
April 20, 2009 – World Music Central
Lincoln Center presents Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, June 5-9
April 19, 2009 – All About Jazz
Aram Demirjian conducts famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble
April 16, 2009 – Armenian Weekly
Yo-Yo Ma and the road to human kindness through the art of music
April 2, 2009 – Insight News
Yo-Yo Ma embraces world cultures, Western classics
March 29, 2009 – Birmingham News
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Teachers College
March 23, 2009 – Teachers College website
Sashaying down the Silk Road
March 21, 2009 – Mike Oldham’s Virtual Pen Blog
The Silk Road Project
March 20, 2009 – Things We Love 2 Blog
Concert review: Yo-Yo Ma builds new bridges across cultures
March 20, 2009 – Toronto Star Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble fascinate at Strathmore
March 20 2009 – DC Tourism Examiner
Q&A: Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road to Toronto
March 19, 2009 – National Post (Canada)
Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project celebrates a decade of musical collaboration
March 19, 2009 – America.gov
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma ponders links between mummies, Gandhi, jeans
March 19, 2009 – Bloomberg News
Yo-Yo Ma goes global
March 16, 2009 – Boston College Heights The language of music, and vice versa: Yo-Yo Ma leads master class
March 15, 2009 – Ann Arbor Chronicle
Silk Road Ensemble enlivens ancient opera
March 14, 2009 – Washington Post
Concert review: Silk Road Ensemble and cellist Yo-Yo Ma
March 14, 2009 – Ann Arbor News
Classical music: Silk Road is a path of discovery for Yo-Yo Ma
March 13, 2009 – Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
The caravan is back; Yo-Yo Ma’s Ensemble returns to Hill
March 12, 2009 – Ann Arbor News
Ma leads group down Silk Road
March 12, 2009 – Boston Globe
Happy anniversary! Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble celebrates its 10th at the Hill
March 11, 2009 – FilterD
Concert preview: The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
March 11, 2009 – Minneapolis City Pages
The Silk Road Ensemble builds a stage for fresh collaboration at Hill
March 10, 2009 – Michigan Daily
Concert review: The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
March 10, 2009 – EDGE Boston
Concert review: The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
March 9, 2009 – Virtual Traveler Blog
Yo-Yo Ma visits Harvard Graduate School of Education with Silk Road Project
March 6, 2009 – Harvard Graduate School of Education website
Ma’s musical lab comes to Boston
March 6, 2009 – Boston Globe
Ma’s Silk Road leads to global awareness
March 6, 2009 – Boston Herald
Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road at RISD
March 5, 2009 – Rhode Island School of Design blog
Dance, music, literature celebrate human rights
March 5, 2009 – Harvard University Gazette
Renowned Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma will celebrate its 10th anniversary with North American tour
March 5, 2009 – World Music Central
Yo-Yo Ma performing in Providence
March 5, 2009 – Providence Journal
Yo-Yo Ma plays for 500 Rhode Island high school students
March 4, 2009 – Providence Journal
Making a musical connection: comingling cultures
March 4, 2009 – Providence Phoenix
Yo-Yo Ma performs at Teachers College
February 27, 2009 – Teachers College website
For the love of Layla: Yo-Yo Ma's Ensemble creates a version of 'Layla and Majnun'
February 27, 2009 – New York Times Chancellor and Yo-Yo Ma launch partnership to enrich middle school instruction
February 25, 2009 – New York City Department of Education
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble touch down at PPAC
February 25, 2009 – Herald News (Fall River, MA)
Yo-Yo Ma goes beyond the music
February 12, 2009 – Harvard Crimson
'Passion for the Arts' translates into action
February 9, 2009 – Harvard Gazette
Advice on art and life from Yo-Yo Ma
February 9, 2009 – Harvard Magazine
Harvard notables passionate for arts
February 5, 2009 – Harvard Crimson
Communicating music heart to heart: an interview with Yo-Yo Ma
February 2, 2009 – PopMatters
Star Spangled Banner forever, starting Barack Obama and Yo-Yo Ma, The Silk Road Ensemble and The New Republic
January 30, 2009 – New Republic Blog: The Spine
Consecration of the house: Bangor Symphony Orchestra marks opening of University of Main center with pianist Joel Fan
January 29, 2009 – Bangor Daily News
Silk Road Ensemble's Yang Wei plays pipa for students at JMW School for the Performing & Visual Arts (video)
January 27, 2009 – Providence Journal
President Yo-Yo Ma
January 23, 2009 – New Republic Blog: The Spine CD Review: Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider’s Silent City
January 23, 2009 – Pitchfork Media An equal music
January 20, 2009 – New Republic Blog: The Spine Required reading, again
January 19, 2009 – New Republic Blog: The Spine
Pre-inaugural concert by Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road group
January 18, 2009 – Baltimore Sun Blog: Clef Notes
Where’s the party?
January 16, 2009 – New York Times Politics Blog: The Caucus Cellist Yo-Yo Ma: peaceful virtuoso
January 16, 2009 – Voice of America News Silk Road Ensemble & Yo-Yo Ma announce program for Symphony Hall performances
January 15, 2009 – Aisle Be Seeing You blog (Celebrity Series of Boston) FirstWorks joins Yo-Yo Ma on the Silk Road
January 14, 2009 – Providence Journal Yo-Yo Ma, Musician of the Year
December 2008 – Musical America Yo-Yo Ma’s Songs of Joy and Peace (video)
December 2008 – WNET New York’s Sunday Arts, courtesy the Bloomberg Muse
Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider (Silent City)
December 2008 – RootsWorld Cellist Yo-Yo Ma offers ‘musical party’ for new year
December 31, 2008 – Voice of America News
Music: Set list 2008 (Brooklyn Rider’s Passport)
December 31, 2008 – Pacific Sun A talk with Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin: How New York City was seized by the East European invasion
December 31, 2008 – World Music A year of revelations and elations around the world (Kalhor/Brooklyn Rider’s Silent City)
December 30, 2008 – Spinner
2008 Year-End Top Classical Albums (New Impossibilities)
December 29, 2008 – Mormon Times Embracing Yo-Yo Ma's 'venture culturalism' (video)
December 26, 2008 – NBC Nightly News "Making a Difference" Recently released CDs that celebrate the season (Songs of Joy and Peace)
December 17, 2008 – ScrippsNews
Thanksgiving Day broadcast: Silk Road Ensemble at the UN (audio)
November 27, 2008 – WNYC's Evening Music Silk Road Journeys by Yo-Yo Ma
November 2008 – Transitions Abroad
On the road again: Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project celebrates 10 years
November 27, 2008 – Strings Magazine
Footnotes: Thanksgiving Day broadcast
November 26, 2008 – New York Times New Classical Tracks: Yo-Yo Ma and friends celebrate the holidays (with audio)
November 25, 2008 – Minnesota Public Radio A night to remember
November 23, 2008 – Peninsula (Qatar)
Museum of Islamic Art set for grand opening
Featuring performance by the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma in Doha, Qatar
November 20, 2008 – Gulf Times Arts, Briefly: Yo-Yo Ma named Musician of the Year
November 19, 2008 – New York Times
International News: UN Day Concert (in Chinese)
October 27, 2008 – Science and Technology Daily
Arts, Briefly: Silk Road Project turns 10
October 26, 2008 – New York Times
Nightly News broadcast: UN Day Concert (in Chinese, video)
October 25, 2008 – Sinovision UN Day marked around the globe with array of events and festivities
October 24, 2008 – UN News Centre
Yo-Yo Ma helps celebrate UN Day (audio)
October 24, 2008 – United Nations Radio A preview of tonight's UN Day Concert (audio)
October 24, 2008 – United Nations Radio Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project at the Hollywood Bowl
September 29, 2008 – Los Angeles Times Live: A Celebration of Rumi – The Sights and Sounds of Mystic Persia
September 29, 2008 – International Review of Music
Alim Qasimov: the living legend you’ve never heard of
September 19, 2008 – Times (U.K.) Silk Road Ensemble is where East and West come together
September 18, 2008 – Augusta Chronicle Kalhor sets Rumi-related music in Hollywood Bowl
September 17, 2008 – Pavyand's Iran News from Iran Times Lincoln Center plans yearlong 50th-anniversary celebration
September 17, 2008 – New York Sun Lincoln Center turns 50 and prepares a party
September 16, 2008 – New York Times Evening Music: Brooklyn Rider (audio)
September 12, 2008 – WNYC's Evening Music Giving voice to ‘Silent City’: Kayhan Kalhor bridges Tehran and Brooklyn
September 2, 2008 – Spinner A master Iranian musician plays cultural ambassador
August 26, 2008 – New York Times Follow the mellow Silk Road with Yo-Yo and his cello
August 23, 2008 – Irish Independent Arts, Briefly: Silk Road sounds
August 16, 2008 – New York Times
Kim, Zhang travel new road with Yo-Yo Ma
July 15, 2008 – Korea Times
Program packages primer on Beijing in time for Games
June 25, 2008 – Stanford Report
Review of Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
June 4, 2008 – Allmusic.com
Open Source Storytelling: Ben Haggarty (with audio)
May 21, 2008 – "Open Source with Christopher Lydon" podcast
Yo-Yo Ma still revels in the joy of learning
May 16, 2008 – Boston Globe
Review of Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
May 12, 2008 – Audiophile Audition
Moseying down China's Silk Road: review of Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
April 29, 2008 – San Francisco Classical Voice
Silk Road Starts Here
April 15, 2008 – Providence Journal
Silk Made
April 8, 2008 – Providence Journal
Gabriela Lena Frank: composite identity (with video)
April 1, 2008 – New Music Box
Review of Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
March 13, 2008 – Time Out Chicago
Radio essay by Yo-Yo Ma: a musician of many cultures (audio)
March 10, 2008 – NPR's "This I Believe"
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble return to Japan
February 15, 2008 – World Music Central
Hollywood to host Persian music concert
February 2, 2008 – Press TV
Editorial by Yo-Yo Ma: Culture's a gift to give – a globalized world can be harmonious
January 30, 2008 – Boston Herald
Yo-Yo Ma receives Crystal Award
January 25, 2008 – World Economic Forum website
Why did the cellist cross the Silk Road?
November 30, 2007 – Harvard Crimson
An experiment in musical, cultural fusion: review of New Impossibilities
November 30, 2007 – MIT's Tech
Interview with Yo-Yo Ma: East meets West – the new Silk Road (audio)
November 18, 2007 – PRI's To The Best of our Knowledge
Crossing cultures by making melodies: Yo-Yo Ma named one of America's Best Leaders
November 12, 2007 – U.S. News & World Report
Interview with Yo-Yo Ma (audio)
November 12, 2007 – Diane Rehm Show
Yo-Yo Ma's fabulous fantasy: review of New Impossibilities
October 26, 2007 – World Music Central
Interview with Yo-Yo Ma: cellist Yo-Yo Ma earns more acclaim (audio)
October 19, 2007 – PRI's Studio 360
Talking with Yo-Yo Ma, the ambassador of cello (audio)
October 17, 2007 – WNYC’s Soundcheck
The Silk Road Ensemble blazes through Beijing
October 15, 2007 – Beijinger news blog
Contemporary traditional music: excerpt from New Impossibilities (audio)
October 9, 2007 – WNYC's New Sounds
Golijov debuts new composition at Special Olympics Opening Ceremony
October 2007 – Holy Cross website
A brief, positive, and cultural note
October 4, 2007 – Atlantic
Stars add sparkle on a night to remember
October 2, 2007 – China.org
Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble to tour China
October 1, 2007 – Playbill Arts
Yo-Yo Ma taking his Silk Road Project to Shanghai
September 27, 2007 – Ledger
Yo-Yo Ma: The Rest is Noise interview
September 20, 2007 – The Rest is Noise blog by Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble to tour China
September 16, 2007 – World Music Central
Renowned cellist comes to Benaroya for gala
September 9, 2007 – Seattle Times
Caravans in the desert: Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project brings together the music of the cultures along the ancient trade route from Asia to Europe
September 7, 2007 – Guardian (U.K.)
Die Seidenstrasse reicht bis nach Luzern (in German)
August 25, 2007 – Tages-Anzeiger
Review of New Impossibilities
August 23, 2007 – Time Out Chicago
Unterwegs mit einer musikalishen Karawane (in German)
August 21, 2007 – Tages-Anzeiger
Yo-Yo Ma/Chicago Symphony/Silk Road Project hits no. 1 on Billboard classical chart
August 9, 2007 – Playbill Arts
Interview: beyond the Silk Road with Yo-Yo Ma (audio)
August 4, 2007 – Weekend America
Review of New Impossibilities
August 6, 2007 – Audiophile Audition
Review of New Impossibilities
July 30, 2007 – Music Tap
The end of the Silk Road (with audio)
June 5, 2007 – WBEZ
21st century technology takes students back to 17th century
May 10, 2007 – Harvard University Gazette
Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project headed for Europe, Asia
April 19, 2007 – Reuters
Come together: Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble celebrate cross-cultural musical collaboration at Zellerbach concert
March 19, 2007 – Daily Californian
Global nomads
March 17, 2007 – San Francisco Classical Voice
The Silk Road Ensemble a joyous meeting of East and West
March 14, 2007 – Seattle Times
Silk Road Ensemble delivers first-rate goods
March 14, 2007 – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Yo-Yo Ma's international program is universally grand
March 13, 2007 – Seattle Times
Sounds of the Silk Road: A my, oh Ma happening
March 11, 2007 – Seattle Times
A magical pairing of animated movie and live music: The Adventures of Prince Achmed
January 28, 2007 – Providence Journal
Famed cellist visits Evanston Institute, gives workshop
January 23, 2007 – Daily Northwestern
Extending the Silk Road: planning in progress for interdisciplinary Silk Road-inspired classes, projects
October 26, 2006 – Harvard University Gazette
Silk Road Project drinks to the music
October 23, 2006 – Harvard Crimson
The view from Ma's Silk Road
October 20, 2006 – Boston Globe
Silk Road Festival opens today: after successful ‘05 series, project led by cellist Yo-Yo Ma ‘76 aims for encore
October 17, 2006 – Harvard Crimson
Lusty or tranquil in spirit, but always unlikely in sound
September 19, 2006 – New York Times
Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble give concert weekend at Carnegie's Zankel Hall
September 15, 2006 – Playbill Arts
Long and winding road: Yo-Yo Ma's multi-million-dollar Silk Road Project produces an East/West mash-up of global proportions
September 14-20, 2006 – Time Out Chicago Raucous chords and a folk-tinged cello from the New York Philharmonic
May 12, 2006 – New York Times
Famous cellist kicks off yearlong event at Chicago Cultural Center
May 2, 2006 – WLS-TV (ABC)
Chicago launches yearlong Silk Road Festival
May 2, 2006 – Playbill Arts Currency is music in East-West exchange
April 12, 2005 – New York Times A Silk Road that leads somewhere truly new
April 10, 2005 – New York Times Tuning instruments and ears to sounds of far away
September 18, 2004 – New York Times Yo-Yo Ma: the road runs smooth as silk
May 26, 2003 – Independent (U.K.) Wealth of nations
May 10, 2002 – Independent (U.K.)
All the world’s a band, and here’s how it sounds
April 28, 2002 – New York Times Horse heads, spike fiddles and elephant plectrums on the road to harmony
November 12, 2001 – Independent (U.K.)
Journey’s end
May 27, 2001 – New Yorker From Africa to the steppes of Asia
January 19, 2001 – Independent (U.K.) Yo-Yo Ma’s journeys
March-April 2000 – Harvard Magazine |