When this cellist's hand stopped working, he picked up a baton instead

In 2008, a year after earning his master's degree at Juilliard, cellist Earl Lee found he could no longer play a C major scale. Focal dystonia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions, took control of his left hand and brought his career as a cellist to an abrupt end. Eighteen years later, in July 2022, the 42-year-old Korean Canadian became the music director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. Last month, the orchestra announced it would extend his cont