Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
A first-rate music film capturing a restless desire to communicate beyond the boundaries of any single idiom.
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
From the director of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom and the critically acclaimed Best of Enemies, the new film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble tells the extraordinary story of the renowned international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The feature-length documentary follows this group of diverse instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope.
Genre
Music,
Documentary
Runtime
96
Language
English
Director
Morgan Neville
FEATURED REVIEW
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
The fabled Oscar-winning documentary “From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China” (1980), which followed Stern as he taught the children of Communist China to play — and love — Western classical music, captured a new kind of synergy between the West and the East. In “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma ...
Played at
Town Center 5 6.17.16 - 6.30.16
Playhouse 7 6.17.16 - 7.17.16
Monica Film Center 6.24.16 - 6.30.16
Claremont 5 6.24.16 - 6.30.16
Lumiere Music Hall 7.01.16 - 8.11.16
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