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A reporter asked the legendary cellist Pablo Casals on his 95th birthday “Mr Casals, you’re 95 and the greatest cellist who ever lived. Why do you still practice six hours a day?” Casals answered, “Because I think I’m making progress.”...

At the precise time this blog will be published (I am writing this a week ahead of publication) I am probably in a state of excited terror and low-level nausea. ...