{"id":239,"date":"2017-01-06T23:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T23:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/?p=239"},"modified":"2017-01-06T23:43:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T23:43:45","slug":"musical-icons-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/musical-icons-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Icons Past and Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One such musical icon is the incredibly talented cellist and composer Yo-Yo Ma, celebrated in the newly released documentary THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE, now\u00a0showing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madman.com.au\/catalogue\/view\/36691\/\">select Australian Cinemas (view locations)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Silk Road Ensemble, an international collective created by acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, exemplifies music\u2019s ability to blur geographical boundaries, blend disparate cultures and inspire hope for both artists and audiences.<\/p>\n<p>From the creators of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 FEET FROM STARDOM\u00a0and the critically-hailed BEST OF ENEMIES, the film follows an ever-changing lineup of performers drawn from the ensemble\u2019s more than 50 instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Music of Strangers - Official Trailer\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ogujjDfNRA?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>There are also plenty of living legends profiled in fantastic musical documentaries available to watch now on DocPlay. Here are some of our favourites:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One such musical icon is the incredibly talented cellist and composer Yo-Yo Ma, celebrated in the newly released documentary THE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docplay.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}