Members of the Portland Cello Project are shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters May 31, 2012. Imagining pop music's most notable records as Baroque-style sonatas, the Oregon-based band of instrumentalists has fashioned a creative niche that forges through genres to bridge the outlandish with the sophisticated. Now on national tour to promote their new album, "Homage," out Tuesday, the collective aims to challenge the restrictions of their instrumental classification. REUTERS/Tarina Westlund/Handout

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