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After the excitement dies down, the cultural exchanges--so everyone hopes--will become routine. American audiences will doubtless give standing ovations to major Soviet troupes. "The Bolshoi Ballet will sell out as long as the world turns," says Niefeld. Cognoscenti hope that future visits will also bring such top performers as Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Saxophonist Alexei Kozlov, Mezzo-Soprano Elena Obraztsova, and even Pianist Vladimir Feltsman, whose career was halted by Soviet authorities in 1979 when he applied for permission to emigrate to Israel...
American audiences may find a few disappointments. "Many of their famous classical music artists are dead or have already come to the West," Niefeld says. "By and large, the talent that's left over there is of less consequence than before. It isn't like 20 years ago, when the Soviets had a pantheon of world performers you couldn't find anywhere else...
...Figure Skating Champions Oleg Protopopov, 47, and Ludmila Belousova, 43. So alarmed were Soviet officials over the rash of recent defections that they canceled a scheduled 28-concert U.S. tour by the Moscow State Symphony. Before the drastic decision was made, the orchestra's U.S. booking agent, Samuel Niefeld, was suddenly summoned to Moscow. Niefeld was reportedly asked to give "guarantees" that there would be no defections from the orchestra. Obviously Moscow was as dissatisfied with his reply as it was distrustful of the orchestra's loyalty...
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