Silk Road Ensemble
 A Playlist without Borders, Silk Road Ensemble, Yo-Yo Ma (Sony, 2013) |
Washington Post, March 2
Having traveled the globe, appeared with the world’s leading orchestras and achieved virtually anything a solo cellist could dream of, Yo-Yo Ma has sought a range of second acts. One is the Silk Road Ensemble, a group of international musicians Ma founded to explore other musical styles and traditions and mingle them with his own. Now that once-experimental ensemble is a recognized force in its own right. On Sunday, the group appeared at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, presented by Washington Performing Arts, as part of its 15th-anniversary tour. How time flies.Silk Road Ensemble
Some pieces were more successful than others... [Continue reading]
With Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Washington Performing Arts
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Congratulations to our own Robert Pohl, who was at this concert last night for Ionarts and ended up covering it for the Washington Post.
1 comment:
The piece he describes as concluding the program in fact ended the first half, before the intermission. What happened to the rest?
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