Tomoko Sugawara; Kugo and Gothic Harp
August Denhard; Plectrum Lute, Oud
Danny Mallon; Percussion
This program imagines what music travelers on the Silk Road might have heard between 500 and 1500 AD. It had become a conduit of silk, music, Buddhism, etc. Versions of the instruments played here – harp, lute and percussion – had originated in western Asia and traveled to eastern Asia along the road.