This story was written by Megan Westberg for the March-April 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by the author.

Sometime around the year 2000, violinist David Harrington of the California-based Kronos Quartet received an email. Its author wasn’t a colleague or a publicist. Or even an adult. This email was, in fact, written by a teenage cellist living roughly 5,000 miles away...

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