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Yuxin Wu plays the Chinese gehu string instrument.

Chinese musician works to revive the gehu instrument

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Yuxin Wu, a second-generation gehu player at the Berklee College of Music, is on a mission to revive the Chinese string instrument with its unique vibrational sound.

A woman playin cello appears in an empty museum hall.

‘Food for our soul’: Cellist Camille Thomas performs solo at Paris museums during lockdown

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Yo-Yo Ma’s Baroque Cello

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Yo-Yo Ma

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Erik Friedlander

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In the 1960s and 70s, Lee Friedlander took his family on summer road trips, and took pictures that established him as a great American photographer. Erik Friedlander, his son, grew up to be an innovative cellist. Kurt talks with him about his latest record, and the music inspired by those family road trips.

The Teacher Goes Back to School

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June Update: Choosing the music has been so confusing. After deciding to tackle an entire chronology of the cello, I quickly realized how much work that would be. I decided to take so…

Seeing the Big Picture

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September Update: This is really fun, people: choosing music, location and a pianist collaborator for this recital, which is December 1. The closer I get to the event, though, the mor…

How to fake it as a cellist

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Ben Hong taught Jamie Foxx how to play for the new film “The Soloist,” and describes the challenges of teaching a movie star how to fake it as a cellist.

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New Year’s Resolution: The Repertoire

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As 2012 drew to a close, Studio 360 listener Michael Relland resolved to perform his first public cello recital in 2013. In January, we set out to make sure he got it done, and this week, we checked in to see how the preparations are coming.