Name: Music of Strangers
Start: 2024-09-25T19:00:00
Location: Princeton Garden Theatre

Morgan Neville

Princeton University Concerts

Join us at the Princeton Garden Theatre for a screening of Grammy-nominated documentary The Music of Strangers, which follows members of the Silk Road Ensemble as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution. Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and producer Caitrin Rogers focus on the personal journeys of artists appearing this season at Princeton University Concerts: Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh (appearing with live illustrator Kevork Mourad on September 26), Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor (appearing on February 12 and 13), Chinese pipa star Wu Man (appearing on February 13), and Galician bagpipe sensation and beloved past PUC artist Cristina Pato — to chronicle passion, talent, and sacrifice. Through these moving individual stories, the filmmakers paint a vivid portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for the ties that bind.