the hair on Schiffer’s Baroque cello bow falls off. With wide-eyed gazes from the violin soloists and a bewildered, exasperated shrug from Schiffer, second cellist Rebecca Landell Reed expertly picks ...

“I like playing the cello because I love the sound that it makes, and it rings a lot,” said Shaw Edwards. “People smile when I play.” A student at PS 230 in Kensington, Shaw picked up a bow for the ...

Instead, it was a robot. Around the propped up cello, two mechanical arms protruded from the ground. One held the bow, attached to robotic appendage directly instead of lightly held between a ...