Yo-Yo Ma on Travel and the ‘Silk Road Project’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.17.07 | 11:15 AM ET
Photo by pingnews.com, via flickr. (Creative Commons).
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, whose Silk Road Project winds up a long-term Chicago engagement early next month, recently spoke with Condé Nast Traveler’s Dorinda Elliott about what inspired the project and his life as a traveler. “The mantra of a musician is that you’re playing something that is bigger than yourself,” he says. “Part of traveling is that you are trying to fulfill your curiosity—so you ask, ‘Why do you do things that way?’ To satisfy that hunger makes you feel more human. In music and in travel, you have to be a participant, not just a consumer. It enlarges your view of the human family.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Kim Clark Renteria 05.18.07 | 5:03 PM ET
The thought of Dorinda Elliot interviewing YoYo Ma makes me wonder who was more amazed: the interviewer in the one being interviewed. When I read the mantra of the musician “that you are playing something that is much bigger than yourself”...it served to remind me of the mantra, “that which is most personal is that which is most universal. I believe that Dorinda’s life and attitude, which has taken her all over the world, reverses the mantra and for her, that which is most universal is what makes her interviews so interesting and personal.