Fw: CONCERTS ON-LINE- Silk Road Project with Yo-Yo Ma

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From: "Daniel Waugh" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:01 AM
Subject: CONCERTS ON-LINE- Silk Road Project with Yo-Yo Ma


> A distribution of: CentralAsia-L - Announcement List for Central Asian
Studies
>
>
> CONCERTS ON-LINE- Silk Road Project with Yo-Yo Ma
>
> For those who are not located near a city where Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road
Project
> is performing, there is an opportunity to hear the programs on-line.
> KING-FM in Seattle is broadcasting at least the first two concerts (I
assume
> the others may be scheduled as well).  They are:
>
> The May 12 concert to be broadcast Friday, May 17, 9 PM Pacific Daylight
Time;
>
> The May 13 concert to be broadcast Tuesday, May 21, 8 PM Pacific Daylight
Time.
>
> You can access information on the station's programming at www.king.org
and
> can connect directly to the page to start the streaming RealAudio
broadcast
> at king.org/stream/.  Program notes for the works and composers are
> available on the Seattle Symphony website, www.seattlesymphony.org.
>
> I attended both of these first concerts and can report that it is a
> remarkable experience.  The acoustics in Seattle Symphony's Benaroya Hall
> are superb; there has been a visible sense of excitement.  A lot here to
be
> learned about musical traditions, albeit in most cases woven into a modern
> fabric and out of context.  Each program includes performances of
> traditional music as well as "fusion" pieces composed specifically for
this
> project.  Although not really at the center of the Silk Road, I think my
> personal favorite so far is the Kodaly solo cello sonata (no. 8) with
which
> Yo-Yo Ma concluded the formal part of the first program.  The series is
sold
> out (so, don't come to Seattle hoping to get a seat in any of the last
three
> concerts), but the broadcasts will at least provide some sense of what you
> may have read about in the many news articles.
>
> You need RealAudio player on your computer to listen, but KING-FM's
website
> will guide you as to where to get it.
>
> Dan Waugh
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