To stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, several authorities around the world have asked their citizens to stop non-essential contact with other people and to self-isolate. And, shutting out ...

I grew up in San Jose, where there were sizable Chinese and Taiwanese populations, and as kids, many of us took piano lessons or learned how to play other Western instruments. But I didn’t know ...

Tianjin, Melbourne, London... when this Chinese girl first touched a cello 20 years ago, she hadn't realized that the stringed instrument would lead her halfway around the globe. "My first music ...

"I wanted to be perfect, but I couldn't. Then I thought to myself, maybe I shouldn't have learnt cello at all," she said. On these occasions, her father would say "it doesn't matter if you want to ...