Personal Essay

How to Make Peace With the Ghosts of the Past: I Played My Cello Again

And I did it great by debuting in an orchestra

Photo by Marco Venghi — 2016 ElasticOrchestra and Concordia Vocum Big Band — Teatro Ariston, Mantova

I made an impossible reentry as a cellist thirty years after I gave up playing and studying music. But first, I had to restore my cello after a disastrous accident that occurred twenty years ago. The story is long, but…