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WHERE DID MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH GO wrong? The retiring music director of Washington's National Symphony was one of America's cold war trophies, but his baton work has only rarely matched his peerless way with the cello. Consider a new Italian-issued CD (Intaglio) with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the London ! Symphony, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1967. Rostropovich sails through Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso and digs into Prokofiev's Concertino, written for the cellist and completed by him after Prokofiev's death in 1953. But the glory of the recording is a magisterial reading of Elgar's Cello Concerto; Rostropovich...
...almost become evangelical when I tell my students, `Go on to graduate school. Consider becoming scholars and working at a university where you will teach, write, publish and have some impact on society'," said William E. Moore, vice chancellor for academic affairs at Southern University at Baton Rouge...
...sort of thinking that wins friends in the state that has taken the lead in tough sentencing laws and boasts the country's highest incarceration rate. "I don't think if you killed somebody you have the right to be back out in society," says Margot Blalock of the Baton Rouge-based Parents of Murdered Children. Whitley's response is neither indifferent nor apologetic. "I understand how families of victims feel. But I can't run my prison with all those negative feelings toward inmates...
Surprisingly, Whitley's progressive approach has stirred no ripples in Baton Rouge. "We always say about Angola that if it's not in the press for something bad, things must be going pretty well," says Ralph Miller, former chairman of the state house's criminal-justice committee. Still, admirers want < it known that Whitley is no liberal. "In this state, that's like being accused of being a child molester," says District Court Judge Robert Downing...