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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...
...chaos overtakes us. Intellectuals have to build spiritual hopes for hopeless people. I believe in the new Russians. I mean people like the eye surgeon Svyatoslav Fyodorov and the other Fyodorov, who opened the first private restaurant in Moscow and the first Muscovite restaurant in New York. I mean Mstislav Rostropovich, the great cellist who, mingling with the pro-democracy crowds in Moscow, was like a new Orpheus descended in the hell of the coup. I mean the 10- and 12-year-old boys, Muscovites of the 21st century, who are earning their first money by wiping windshields of cars...
...Lebanese government's plans to resume Baalbek's summer festival. From 1955 until the outbreak of war 20 years later, some of the world's leading talents performed under the stars on the steps of the temple of Bacchus. Ella Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Ginger Rogers, Claudio Arrau and Mstislav Rostropovich are but a few of the celebrities who have signed the guest book now locked in the safe of the Palmyra Hotel, across the street from the ruins. Says Musawi: "The people of this region no longer want this loose living...
...meeting of the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin, who was handling the Baikal project, asked Mstislav Keldysh, president of the Academy of Sciences, "What does the academy recommend? If the safeguards aren't reliable, we'll stop construction." Keldysh quoted a report that the water-purification system and other safeguards were completely reliable. He may have been acting in good faith. Still, my feeling is that his stand was greatly influenced by the academy's dependence on the bureaucratic machine, and that he was predisposed to respect the wishes of this machine and to ignore the warnings...
...accepted anyway, and you'd just be fired." Alexei's story is not unusual. Anti-Semitic discrimination in university admissions is part of a deliberate policy of squeezing Jews out of the country's intellectual establishment. The Central Committee is said to have asked Mstislav Keldysh, then president of the Academy of Sciences, when its Jewish membership would fall to zero. It would take about 20 years to solve the "problem," he replied. I must note that Keldysh did not reduce the number of Jews in the institutes he directed and was not anti-Semitic...