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...cellist in Music 180, yesterday said "there is some question as to how the course is run" and conceded that there are "inevitable personality conflicts" between Zander and Kirchner...
...predominantly men, many new to the orchestra, and the talk tends to gripes about six-hour bus rides to play a concert and union negotiations with management. The Sinners are aware that the Saints consider them irreverent. "The Mormons really think they are superior people," says a Sinner cellist. "They are polite to us and pleasant enough, but we really don't mingle with them at all." The biggest difference between the two buses is the attitude toward the Maestro. To the Saints, Abravanel is a revered father figure. To the Sinners, he is a typical conductor-a dictator...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra presents the third of four seasonal concerts. James Yannatos, conductor and David Commanday '76, cellist. Works of Mozart Bloch, Hindemith. Sanders Theater...
...highlight of the master class was the confrontation of the 49-year-old Soviet emigre, who is often called the world's greatest cellist, and senior Yo-Yo Ma, who has already had a remarkable career in his own right. In fact, until Rostropovich switched to Columbia management last year, he and Ma were two of only five cellists in the world under the management of impressario Sol Hurok...
Rostropovich's outspoken support of intellectual dissidents put him in constant trouble with the Soviet government. He was barred from travel abroad for three years. His refusal to sign letters denouncing Andrei Sakharov led to the onset of what the cellist calls "silent torture." When he gave refuge to his friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who spent four years in Rostropovich's home, the cellist's musical life in the Soviet Union was squelched. Radio announcers were not permitted to mention his name. At one point all his concerts were cancelled. Once, in a small town, Rostropovich saw men obscuring posters...