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The Silk Road Ensemble developed "Layla and Majnun" at Harvard in 2007
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© DAVID O'CONNOR
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2005-2010 Affiliation
The Silk Road Project and Harvard University began a partnership in 2005. From 2005 through 2010, the Silk Road Project brought members of the Silk Road Ensemble to campus during yearly residencies to interact with students, conduct workshops and share works in progress.
Led by a wish to inspire self-motivated learning, the Silk Road Project worked with the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences to facilitate multicultural artistic and intellectual coursework in the arts, literature, history and music of the Silk Road region. Harvard has introduced two “Silk Road Courses” that are animating faculty and students in the humanities, arts, sciences and social sciences:
- "Travel, Trade and Transformation on the High Seas: An Imaginary Journey in the Early 17th Century,” taught by Stephen Greenblatt
- "Historical and Musical Paths on the Silk Road," taught by Mark Elliott and Richard Wolf
During the October 2009 residency at Harvard, the Silk Road Project built upon a symposium held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education the previous spring. The 2009 residency focused on "inspiring passion-driven learning" through presentations, roundtable discussions, a performance workshop and a concert with Harvard undergraduate students. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project were awarded the Thelma E. Goldberg Arts in Education Award.
During the November 2007 residency at Harvard, the Silk Road Ensemble performed during presentations by Harvard professors and developed a new multimedia work, Layla and Majnun, which they presented as a work in progress for the Cambridge community.
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