An Air Canada boarding agent refused a cello its seat, and no strings could be pulled to get the instrument in the air. As a result, a sold-out concert in Toronto on Wednesday was called off just hours before its scheduled start.
The night prior, at Memorial Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, the British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his pianist sister Isata Kanneh-Mason had closed a concert with Gustav Holst’s carol In the Bleak Midwinter. Then things got very bleak indeed.
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