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It is hard to overstate 30-year-old cellist Alisa Weilerstein\\u2019s musical achievements. In 2011, she was named a MacArthur fellow, aka \\u201cgenius,\\u201d for her accomplishments as a musician and as an \\u201cadvocate for contemporary music.\\u201d She is constantly in demand, performing, giving master classes, rehearsing, and recording with the world\\u2019s best orchestras. And she\\u2019s just released an album on Decca Classics\\u2014the first time the label has signed on a cellist in over 30 years. The CD, Elgar, Carter: Cello Concertos, features concertos by Edward Elgar and Elliott Carter along with Max Bruch\\u2019s Kol Nidrei and is conducted by Daniel Barenboim and performed with the Berlin Staatskapelle.

The last few weeks have been particularly tumultuous for her, with the last-minute cancellation of her Carnegie Hall concert because of the danger posed by a crane dangling above the concert...

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