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A young musical prodigy writes to Leonard Bernstein

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15 Feb 2011: President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to cellist YoYo Ma (Photo by ImageCatcher News Service/Corbis via Getty Images)

On this day in 1965, a 10-year-old cellist wrote to one of his musical idols, Leonard Bernstein, and very politely invited him to an upcoming performance.

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