By Anne Midgette
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 14, 2010
In 1961, Pablo Casals played for John F. Kennedy at the White House. The concert could be seen as a symbol of the importance of the arts to the Kennedy administration, or as a gesture of honor to a great cellist.
But there’s… Read More >
By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY
NEW YORK Yo-Yo Ma is one of the world’s most famous and prolific classical musicians. But like a number of his projects, his latest album, The Goat Rodeo Sessions, defies categorization.
“Someone described it to me the other day as… Read More >
First published on 7 Jun 2012. Updated on 7 Jun 2012.
Time Out traces the journey of the man behind the Silk Road Project, the world’s greatest living cellist, Yo-Yo Ma.
We could call Yo-Yo Ma the worlds greatest ambassador of the cello that is, if it werent so limiting. An artistic… Read More >
A small academic industry is building around the work of David Greig. Books are appearing with titles such as The Sense of Place and Identity in David Greig’s Plays and the forthcoming Transnational Identities. You can imagine the playwright himself would be bemused by such attention. It… Read More >
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As the Devil points out halfway through the evening, there is no peace for the wicked. Down you go to your local pub, and who should be there but the National Theatre of Scotland, in the shape of a touring company of five terrific actor-musicians, led by the gorgeous Madeleine Worrall… Read More >