You can practically hear "Previously, on X-Men!" before listening to this rendition of the classic cartoon theme, done in an 8 cello arrangement.

A new book from writer, BBC broadcaster and cellist Kate Kennedy tackles the stories of four cellists connected by a mutual musical obsession. Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound focuses on ...

“I needed to find out,” she writes, “what the cello, and its absence, had meant to other cellists, in order to start to understand what it meant to me.” Ms. Kennedy focuses her book on ...

Kennedy’s book is itself an intelligent conversation among Musicians—“with a capital M”—whose lives have been shaped, and even saved, by the encompassing world of the cello.