Word: rampal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe you want to compare the sounds of some other orchestras with that of the Boston Symphony. Or maybe you've bought every Jean' Pierre Rampal record ever made, and you're wondering if he can really play like that outside a recording studio. Or perhaps you're dying to hear what a balalaika orchestra sounds like (pretty much like no other you've ever heard before...
...Azur, it had on board a classic boatload of cash and culture. Some 200 music lovers paid up to $4,500 to glide around the Mediterranean to the personal accompaniment of the likes of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Alexander Schneider, Flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and Dancer Rudi Nureyev. Each day the geniuses would entertain the guests. Rostropovich, who left Russia on a two-year visa last May, was the star both on and off stage. He hammed it up on the ship's piano clad in a bathrobe, and when the ship arrived in Istanbul, he went ashore...