Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.

From: The World and I | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Assembling masters of classical musics of all Eurasia, commissioning works, and mounting performances around the world, the Silk Road Project is creating a new trans-highway of culture.

For about two thousand years, the Silk Road--a network of trade routes that connected East Asia to the Mediterranean--was the main conduit for the spread and exchange of goods, ideas, religions, and cultural elements among the many peoples of Eurasia. Along it, Buddhism spread from India to China, Korea, and Japan; Islam from the Middle East to the subcontinent and Southeast Asia; ...

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