Silk Road names Yo Yo Ma’s successor
mainThe singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is to be the next Artistic Director, succeeding Yo-Yo Ma who stepped down in 2017.
The PR says: Rhiannon is a multi-racial artist (who) embodies Silkroad’s values of embracing difference and sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning to create a more hopeful and inclusive world. These qualities—and more—make her perfectly suited to lead Silkroad’s artistic vision into the future.
This is great news! She’s an incredible artist. Her recent collaboration with Yo-Yo was fantastic: https://youtu.be/gYDo0ZjXegM
Her career thus far has seemed to concentrate on American vernacular music so this is an interesting choice. The Silk Road Project has been wonderful. We wish her well.
Great choice; Everyone should listen to the Met Opera/WQXR series that she hosts, Aria Code
I wish her well.
A tough act to follow but I’m sure Mr Ma had input in this selection.
What a wonderful group!
How incredibly comparable to Yo-Yo Ma. So au courant, so without artistic merit.
Hasn’t there always been “cultural collaboration” and “passion-driven learning”? Why does it need to be radical? And what is a “multi-cultural” artist? Aren’t all? I’m tired of this inclusion of race as a factor in everything.
I’m gonna guess: You’re a white guy. And you’re tired of some stuff. I get it. We white guys really have it rough, having to live in a society designed and built around our wants and needs. Why can’t these “other” people just shut up and stop whining?
They do indeed in a black-ruled dictatorship designed and built around black people’s needs.