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Yo-Yo Ma and Damian Woetzel: A Conversation About the Arts and Citizenship

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  • ABOUT Yo-Yo Ma

    Yo-Yo Ma’s multi-faceted career is testament to his continual search for new ways to communicate with audiences, and to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. Whether performing new or familiar works from the cello repertoire, coming together with colleagues for chamber music or exploring cultures and musical forms outside the Western classical tradition, Mr. Ma strives to find connections that stimulate the imagination.

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  • ABOUT Damian Woetzel

    Damian Woetzel is director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program and the Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence Program and artistic director of the Vail International Dance Festival. He works with Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project in the New York City Public Schools and he is the founding director of the Jerome Robbins Foundation's New Essential Works Program, which gives grants to enable the production of new works. In November 2009, President Obama appointed Woetzel to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

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Music and citizenship go together. That’s the vision of Yo-Yo Ma, one of the great musicians of our time and the Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Ma and ballet star Damian Woetzel have engaged in an ongoing conversation about how artists practice their citizenship, as individuals and through institutions—and how  the arts fulfill a fundamental human need by forging and strengthening community. Join Ma, Woetzel, and a group of citizen musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as they discuss and demonstrate this vision on the Festival stage. 

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This program is presented in partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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