How to spark others: Yo-Yo Ma on the Silk Road Project
Spark & Fire: Fuel Your Creativity
English - June 24, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBArts Leisure arts architecture storytelling writing creative design filmmaking creativity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Silk Road Project was an impossibly ambitious, creatively expansive idea to not only create a category of music that had never been heard before, but also create ensembles to perform it, and audiences who were hungry to hear it. How did Yo-Yo Ma build this vision? He knew from the beginning that it wasn’t about him. You'll hear in the episode from Yo-Yo himself and four key players in the ensemble: clarinetist Kinan Azmeh; percussionist Joseph Gramley; Galician bagpiper Cristina Pato; and pipa player Wu Man.
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