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Caption: Nurlanbek Nyshanov (Kyrgyz Jew's Harp) and Ben Haggarty (UK storyteller) perform during a Family Concert at the Peabody Essex Museum during "Creative Exchanges: Sights and Sounds of the Silk Road."
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption: Shane Shanahan (US percussionist) leads a participatory drum circle at the Peabody Essex Museum during "Creative Exchanges: Sights and Sounds of the Silk Road."
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption: Kojiro Umezaki (Japanese shakuhachi player) solicits comments from the audience to a new musical and dance work centered on a contemporary Indian painting by Gulam Mohammad Sheikh at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum
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Caption: Hu Jianbing (Chinese sheng player) interacts with two curious audience members during a Family Concert at the Peabody Essex Museum. Yo-Yo Ma, Artistic Director and cellist, appears on the right.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum
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Caption: Silk Road Ensemble members Shane Shanahan (percussion), Koji ro Umezaki (shakuhachi), Wu Man (pipa), Ben Haggarty (storytelle r), and John Bertles (music educator) pictured at the Peabody Essex Mu seum for "Creative Exchanges: Sights and Sounds of the Silk Road."
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum
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Caption: SITTING (left to right): Silk Road Ensemble members Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi), Shane Shanahan (percussion), Wu Man (pipa), John Bertles (music educator). STANDING: Ben Haggarty (storyteller) pictured in the Maritime Gallery at the Peabody Essex Museum for "Creative Exchanges: Sights and Sounds of the Silk Road."
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum
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Caption:Silk Road Ensemble members Shane Shanahan (percussion), Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi) , and Wu Man (pipa) pictured in Yin Yu Tang at the Peabody Essex Museum for "Creative Exchanges: Sights and Sounds of the Silk Road."
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum
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Caption:Ben Haggarty (storyteller) of the Silk Road Ensemble pictured in the Maritime Gallery at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption: Ben Haggarty (storyteller) of the Silk Road Ensemble pictured at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption: Wu Man, (pipa - Chinese short-necked plucked lute) of the Silk Road Ensemble pictured at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption: Wu Man (pipa - Chinese short-necked plucked lute) of the Silk Road Ensemble pictured in Yin Yu Tang at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption: Kojiro Umezaki, (shakuhachi - Japanese end-blown bamboo flute) of the Silk Road Ensemble pictured at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption: Shane Shanahan (percussion) of the Silk Road Ensemble pictured at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption:John Bertles (music educator) of the Silk Road Ensemble pictured at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Credit: ©2003 Marc Teatum |
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Caption: A school visitor made this toy pipa in an instrument making workshop for young people led by John Bertles.
Credit: ©2003 Bob Sachs |
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Caption: The calligraphy pictured here was created by Mike Mei Ningguo on Chinese New Year's Day during "Creative Exchanges: Sights and Sounds of the Silk Road" and says Happy New Year in Chinese.
Credit: ©2003 Bethany Haggarty |
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Caption: The Montreal based jazz trio Beat in Fractions performs in the Music Pavilion designed by architect Moshe Safdie. From left to right: Richard Le Gendre (bass), Alain Mercure (percussion), and Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi).
Credit: ©2003 Bethany Haggarty |
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Artists |
Joel Fan, piano
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Joe Gramley, percussion
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Colin Jacobsen, violin
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Siamak Jahangiry, ney
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Khongorzul Ganbaatar, urtiin duu (longsong) vocalist
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Shane Shanahan, percussion
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Mark Suter, percussion
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Wu Man, pipa
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Xu Ke, erhu
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Yang Wei, pipa
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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The morin khuur [MOO rin HOOR], a Mongolian horsehead fiddle, held by Yo-Yo Ma who performs the instrument in Kayhan Kalhor's Blue as the Turquoise Night of Neyshabur.
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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The tabla [TAH blah], a set of drums used in North Indian classical music, is performed by Silk Road Ensemble member Sandeep Das.
©2001 Cylla von Tiedemann
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Composer and kamancheh (Persian spike fiddle) virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, ney (Persian flute) virtuoso Siamak Jahangiry, santur (Persian hammer dulcimer) virtuoso Siamak Aghaei, tabla (Indian percussion) virtuoso Shane Shanahan and other members of the Silk Road Ensemble perform "Blue as the Turquoise Night of Neyshabur," a composition by Kalhor, at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Credit: ©2001 Laura K. Livingston |
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Tutek (Azerbaijani flute) virtuoso Ilham Najafov, Azerbaijani vocalist Alim Qasimov and qanun (Azerbaijani plucked dulcimer) virtuoso Tarana Alieva perform "Dervish" by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in August 2001.
Credit: ©2001 Axel Nickolaus |
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Oboe player Jaime Gonzalez and kayagum (Korean zither) player and vocalist Jihyun Kim perform "Tryst" by composer Jaqueline" Jeeyoung Kim at the Silk Road Project Workshop at L'Academie musicale de Villecroze in 2001.
Credit: ©2001Bruno le Hir de Fallois, L'Académie musicale de Villecroze |
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Yo-Yo Ma and Buyanjargal Narangerel of Mongolia demonstrating the yatga, a Mongolian zither, at a Silk Road Project Performance Workshop at Ozawa Hall at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts in July, 2000.
Credit: © 2000 Stu Rosne |
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Composer Zhao Jiping, pipa (Chinese lute) virtuoso Wu Man, and cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma at the Silk Road Project workshop at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts in July, 2000. The week-long workshop, which brought together nearly 60 musicians from around the world, represents the core of the Silk Road Project mission: to celebrate the shared heritage and cultural contributions of the Silk Road lands and to encourage innovative collaborations among Eastern and Western artists.
Credit: © 2000 Stu Rosner |
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Folklife |
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Anna Burnakova of Ensemble Sabjilar. Ensemble Sabjilar performed at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Credit: ©2001 Cloe Drieu , Kazakhstan |
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Sergei Charkov of Ensemble Sabjilar. Ensemble Sabjilar will perform at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, "The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust."
Credit: ©2001 Cloe Drieu, Kazakhstan. |
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Hua Yinshan plays shawm. The Hua family shawm band will perform at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, "The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust."
Credit: ©2001 Li Jin, People's Republic of China. |
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The tradition of decorative painting is widespread in Pakistan where it extends from cattle and camels to trucks and buses. Painted trucks are the primary mode of transportation over the Karakorum Highway into western China.
Credit: Photo by Mark Kenoyer, ©Smithsonian Institution. |
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Ensemble Sabjilar members (from left to right) Sergei Cherkov, Anna Burnakova, and Slava Kuchenov. Ensemble Sabjilar performed at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Credit: ©2000 Ted Levin, Khakasia. |
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