Anita Graef, an accomplished cellist, remembered an incident last year while performing a teaching residency at the University of Missouri. She was tuning up for a concert at an elementary school, when she heard two little girls “stage whispering” in front of her. They were talking about her.
“One of them said, 'Oh my gosh, look, her hair looks just like mine,'” Graef recalled. “Such a tiny little comment. But it just got to me, because I realized that years ago when I was going to concerts,…
