Did you ever go up in the attic or down in the basement and find a really old piece of furniture and think, I could use this? Well, here's someone who can relate. AMIT PELED: If you take an old ...

WEBVTT HIM PERFORMING ON THE STREETS OF SACRAMENTO. >> I’VE BEEN PLAYED CELLO FOR 20 YEARS. >> HIS TALENTS TURNED INTO HIS LIVELIHOOD. WHO I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE AB TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE IT ...

WQXR began its inaugural Instrument Drive in 2014. They expected to receive 1,000 instruments. They got 3,000. The instruments were cleaned, repaired and distributed to 100 schools in New York City.

In the second part of a conversation, David Greene talks to Amit Peled about playing the cello of his idol, the late Pablo Casales. Peled performs a recital at Baltimore's Peabody Institute Thursday.

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