The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble

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Directed by Morgan Neville (Director of the Academy Award® winning 20 FEET FROM STARDOM) 

Produced by Tremolo Productions in association with Participant Media and The Silk Road Project 

In celebration of world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma's return to Lincoln on December 4, 2025, you're invited to experience the critically acclaimed 2015 documentary that opens with Ma backstage and on stage at the Lied Center!

From the director of the Oscar®-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom and the critically acclaimed Best of Enemies, the film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble tells the extraordinary story of the renowned international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The feature-length documentary follows this group of diverse instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope.  

“We started as a group of musicians getting together and seeing what might happen when strangers meet.”  -Yo-Yo Ma

Running Time: 96 minutes