Word: rostropovich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUBROVNIK (through Aug. 25). The rugged scenic beauty of this Yugoslav seaport offers a feast for the eye while the ear attunes to the sounds of the Amadeus Quartet and the Zagreb Philharmonic. A glittering array of artists, including Soprano Martina Arroyo, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Isaac Stern, and Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Alexis Weissenberg will all be on hand...
...fanfare to keening funeral march with a sure theatrical sense that never quite obscures its melodic poverty; the Concerto-Rhapsody covers much the same ground in about half the time, and was partially redeemed at the Washington performance by the dazzling virtuosity and superlative mugging of Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich...
Nevertheless, Khachaturian professes an interest in new music; several of his pupils at the Moscow Conservatory are, he says, "very modern." Their teacher's own prevailing conservatism has produced its own rewards: an eight-room apartment in Moscow (in a building where Shostakovich, Rostropovich and several other Soviet musicians also live), a summer home, another estate presented to him by the Armenian government, two cars, two chauffeurs and a large staff of servants. "I suppose that makes me a capitalist," he says, not at all ruefully...
...Rostropovich gave a benefit concert Monday evening for the Harvard Summer School and the Cambridge Summer School and the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. The bow has great sentimental value...
Undaunted by a few walkouts, Foss and Rostropovich clattered on for two more movements, straining the limits of the instruments, desperately avoiding melody and rhythm, grinding and groaning till they were spent. True, the applause at the end was louder than the boos, but much of that could have been a tribute to Rostropovich's bravery rather than Foss...