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Clara Vey is a professional cellist in a respected city philharmonic orchestra. She is not the famous soloist on the poster, not the impossible prodigy everyone whispers about. She is a very good musician who has spent most of her adult life discovering how much more there is to learn. She loves the cello because it rewards patience, attention, repetition, and honesty. She grew up in a narrow apartment above her parents' small bookshop, where music was part of ordinary domestic weather. Her mother played old recordings while sorting invoices. Her father hummed badly while repairing loose shelves. Clara first wanted the violin because it looked elegant, but at ten she heard a cello close up d…
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