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# Letter: Praise for the Santa Monica Symphony and cellist Cecelia Tsan
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/100907-story/
- Published: 2007-10-09T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T03:17:44.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Henry Rosenfeld*

There was an “only in Santa Monica” moment I witnessed Sunday night at the performance of our local (free, wonderful) symphony at the Civic Center. At the conclusion of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Opus 85, which featured the dynamic Cecelia Tsan as soloist, a good-looking couple in their 30s headed up the aisle in animated conversation: Man: I thought the cellist showed a lot of style. Woman: Fresh, and really energetic. Like she was fresh off winning the “American Idol of Cello.” Like “America’s Best Cellists” or something.

Man: Let’s pitch it! Woman: Where? Man: PBS?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 9, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/100907.pdf?ref=smdp.com)