In the run-up to Father's Day, professional cellist and best-selling author Edward Kelsey Moore shares a reflection on his father's unflappable demeanor. 'I remember thinking, Wow, my father is cool,' Moore writes. 'When I grow up, I'm going to be like him.' Read and listen to Moore's complete essay.


Edward Kelsey Moore: a cellist's appreciation for his father's effortless cool

Professional cellist and best-selling author Edward Kelsey Moore shares lessons he's learned through his struggles with maintaining weight. 'I trust that there is value in even the worst of my experiences as long as I glean some sort of lesson from it,' Moore writes. 'I try hard to learn my lessons and move forward.' Read Moore's inspiring essay.


Cellist and Author Edward Kelsey Moore: 'Fighting Weight'

Professional cellist and best-selling author Edward Kelsey Moore shares a lesson he's learned from a career in the arts that has included work on some failed productions. 'Being a little, or a lot, delusional isn't the sad result of a long career in the arts,' he writes. 'It's one of the prerequisites.' Read and listen to the complete story, which includes Ginger Rogers and legendary director Joshua Logan.


Edward Kelsey Moore: The Magic of Failure

'I built a career of playing and teaching the cello,' writes Edward Kelsey Moore. 'After several years, I managed to find a combination of the two things that provided me with a modest income along with artistic and intellectual satisfaction. Then I wrote a novel...' Read about what Moore has learned while trying to find a way to balance the various pursuits in his life.


Edward Kelsey Moore: The Balancing Act

With a career as both a cellist and an author, Edward Kelsey Moore is often asked which is his first love, music or writing? The answer lies elsewhere. 'My favorite thing is, and has always been, food,' Moore writes in this humorous (and appetite-whetting) essay.


Deceptions, Distortions, Desserts: a cellist's love affair with food

'For decades, my pattern remained consistent,' writes cellist and best-selling author Edward Kelsey Moore. 'Full of excitement over each new project, I would begin to write. But then ... Whatever I had written would inevitably end up in the Tupperware tub with its uncompleted siblings.' Moore's new essay is a personal story about overcoming procrastination -- and realizing his dreams.


Escaping the Tupperware Tub

Professional cellist and best-selling author Edward Kelsey Moore grew up admiring musicians like Isaac Stern and Jacqueline du Pre, but he is also a huge fan of Diana Ross. In his latest essay, Moore explores the power of fan letters and explains why he would choose to write one to Diana Ross.


The Diana Ross Project: an essay by Edward Kelsey Moore

Professional cellist and best-selling author Edward Kelsey Moore shares two stories about why Bach's Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major is his favorite of the six Bach suites. Together, the two stories tell a lot about Moore's experience as a cellist and, in particular, his experience as a black cellist.


The C Major Suite and Me: An Essay by Edward Kelsey Moore

In his latest essay for Classical MPR, cellist and novelist Edward Kelsey Moore describes how a first-grade recital inspired his love of sad holiday songs. "I continue to love sad Christmas songs," he writes. "Glum Christmas music doesn't depress me in the least." Moore shares his story as well as some of his favorite seasonal tunes.


I'll Have a Blue Christmas, Thank You Very Much: an essay by Edward Kelsey Moore

Have you ever heard a piece of music and felt like it was written just for you? Cellist and best-selling author Edward Kelsey Moore shares three stories that illustrate music's power to articulate feelings we can't express in words.


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