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7:14
The Silk Road Ensemble: Ascending Bird
The Silk Road Ensemble: Ascending Bird
The Silk Road Ensemble: Ascending Bird
Santur player Siamak Aghaei and violinist Colin Jacobsen arranged a traditional folk melody that was inspired by mythology. "Ascending Bird" tells the popula...
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3:51
The Silk Road Ensemble: Ascending Bird
The Silk Road Ensemble: Ascending Bird
The Silk Road Ensemble: Ascending Bird
"Ascending Bird" is an arrangement of a traditional Persian folk melody by Silk Road Ensemble members Colin Jacobsen and Siamak Aghaei. As described on "Sile...
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4:31
The Silk Road Ensemble: NPR Music Field Recordings
The Silk Road Ensemble: NPR Music Field Recordings
The Silk Road Ensemble: NPR Music Field Recordings
"Welcome to Yo-Yo's Playhouse" When you're lucky enough to have cellist Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Silk Road Ensemble, some of the world's premiere instrume...
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4:30
A Field Recording Bonus Track: The Silk Road Swings
A Field Recording Bonus Track: The Silk Road Swings
A Field Recording Bonus Track: The Silk Road Swings
We had so much fun taping cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble's Field Recording, we couldn't stop at just one selection, so we recorded the group's four talented percussionists in a deep groove.
They're playing a piece written by Shane Shanahan called Saidi Swing. While it's inspired by a traditional rhythm from Upper Egypt called saidi (which goes "dum tek dum dum tek" in its simplest incarnation, for those of you who want to find its seeds sprinkled through this piece), Shanahan uses that pattern just as a launching point. And with such fantastic collaborators — Sandeep Das playing the Indian tabla, Shanahan playing the riq, or tam
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20:03
The Silk Road Ensemble: My Lethe Story by Cristina Pato
The Silk Road Ensemble: My Lethe Story by Cristina Pato
The Silk Road Ensemble: My Lethe Story by Cristina Pato
This first reading of "My Lethe Story" by Cristina Pato was shared as a new work in progress during a Silk Road Ensemble residency at Harvard University in D...
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7:30
The Silk Road Ensemble: Immeasurable Light by Wu Man
The Silk Road Ensemble: Immeasurable Light by Wu Man
The Silk Road Ensemble: Immeasurable Light by Wu Man
This first reading of "Immeasurable Light" by Wu Man was shared as a new work in progress during a Silk Road Ensemble residency at Harvard University in Dece...
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7:28
The Silk Road Ensemble: Canal by Ljova
The Silk Road Ensemble: Canal by Ljova
The Silk Road Ensemble: Canal by Ljova
This first reading of "Canal" by Lev Zhurbin (Ljova) was shared as a new work in progress during a Silk Road Ensemble residency at Harvard University in Dece...
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2:19
The Silk Road Ensemble: Crying Song from Chayraq
The Silk Road Ensemble: Crying Song from Chayraq
The Silk Road Ensemble: Crying Song from Chayraq
"Crying Song" is one of more than a dozen short movements from "¡Chayraq!: Rough Guide to a Modern Day Tawantinsuyu." In composing this piece for the Silk Ro...
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9:20
The Silk Road Ensemble: Silent City
The Silk Road Ensemble: Silent City
The Silk Road Ensemble: Silent City
For "Silent City," the kamancheh (Persian spike fiddle), Western strings and percussion join in a meditation that is created anew with each performance. Comp...
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4:56
The Silk Road Ensemble: Night Thoughts
The Silk Road Ensemble: Night Thoughts
The Silk Road Ensemble: Night Thoughts
"Night Thoughts" was inspired by a ninth-century Buddhist pipa tune and represents for pipa virtuoso and composer Wu Man a chance to rediscover the pipa's na...
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2:11
The Silk Road Ensemble: Rustem
The Silk Road Ensemble: Rustem
The Silk Road Ensemble: Rustem
The sweet and seductive violin solo in "Rustem" gives a glimpse of a musical culture that is uniquely global while also rooted in local tradition. The music ...
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10:33
The Silk Road Ensemble: Arabian Waltz
The Silk Road Ensemble: Arabian Waltz
The Silk Road Ensemble: Arabian Waltz
Driven by complex additive rhythms and improvisatory melodic lines, "Arabian Waltz" is a propulsive work by Lebanese-born composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, whose w...
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4:08
The Silk Road Ensemble: Yanzi (Swallow Song)
The Silk Road Ensemble: Yanzi (Swallow Song)
The Silk Road Ensemble: Yanzi (Swallow Song)
In this well-known Chinese folk song, Kazakh in origin, the singer addresses a girl named Yanzi (swallow), praising her bright eyes, graceful neck and long h...
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9:42
The Silk Road Ensemble: Air to Air (Live From Lincoln Center)
The Silk Road Ensemble: Air to Air (Live From Lincoln Center)
The Silk Road Ensemble: Air to Air (Live From Lincoln Center)
On June 9, 2009, the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma performed a free concert at Damrosch Park in New York City, which was broadcast on "Live From Lincoln C...
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3:31
The Silk Road Ensemble: White Snow in the Sunny Spring
The Silk Road Ensemble: White Snow in the Sunny Spring
The Silk Road Ensemble: White Snow in the Sunny Spring
At a Silk Road Ensemble concert, pipa virtuosa Wu Man plays "White Snow in the Sunny Spring." This is one of several traditional Chinese pieces for solo pipa...
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4:13
The Silk Road Ensemble: Kuai Le
The Silk Road Ensemble: Kuai Le
The Silk Road Ensemble: Kuai Le
"Kuai Le," which means "joy" in Chinese, was composed by Osvaldo Golijov for the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma's performance at the Opening Ceremony of th...
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7:15
The Silk Road Ensemble: Concert in Millennium Park
The Silk Road Ensemble: Concert in Millennium Park
The Silk Road Ensemble: Concert in Millennium Park
Excerpt: A free concert performed at Chicago's Millennium Park, which kicked off the yearlong Silk Road Chicago celebration in 2006
More information at http://www.silkroadproject.org
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1:37
The Silk Road Ensemble: The Star-Spangled Banner
The Silk Road Ensemble: The Star-Spangled Banner
The Silk Road Ensemble: The Star-Spangled Banner
A live recording of the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma performing the U.S. national anthem at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C., on January 17, 2009. ...
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4:38
The Silk Road Ensemble: Blue and White
The Silk Road Ensemble: Blue and White
The Silk Road Ensemble: Blue and White
A multimedia performance at Museum Rietberg that explores the impact of the global migration of blue-and-white porcelain More information at http://www.silkr...
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5:30
Yo-Yo Ma, The Silk Road Ensemble - Empire State Of Mind
Yo-Yo Ma, The Silk Road Ensemble - Empire State Of Mind
Yo-Yo Ma, The Silk Road Ensemble - Empire State Of Mind
Music video by Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble performing Empire State of Mind. (C) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
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7:01
Kogarashi, Nakao Tozan
Kogarashi, Nakao Tozan
Kogarashi, Nakao Tozan
1923年11月、尺八の名手、中尾都山は東京を訪れました。芝公園は、その2ヶ月前に発生した関東大震災により荒廃していました。150000人もの人々が犠牲となりました。そして、中尾都山は、その日に芝公園にて感じた思いをもとに「木枯」を作曲しました。我々はこの度、大変な困難に直面している日本の人達のために、この曲を...
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4:22
The Silk Road Ensemble: Wandering Winds
The Silk Road Ensemble: Wandering Winds
The Silk Road Ensemble: Wandering Winds
Opening a Silk Road Ensemble concert, three musicians perform an improvisation entitled "Wandering Winds." Kojiro Umezaki begins alone on the shakuhachi, a J...