Turning 60

Yo-Yo Ma shines a spotlight on his life with a coming-of-age album, Chen Nan reports. Chen Nan

In the summer of 1978, when Kathryn Stott, a student of classical piano at London's Royal College of Music, returned to her apartment after a holiday, she found a young Asian man practicing the cello inside the pad she shared with violinist Nigel Kennedy. The stranger's wife was there too.

"It seems Nigel had sublet the apartment," Stott, a British classical pianist, recalls of the six weeks she spent in the apartment with Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Jill Hornor, his wife.