Word: rostropovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mstislav Rostropovich, the great Soviet cellist-conductor who yesterday dropped his suit-and cello cases in the Leverett House suite where he will live for the remainder of the week, has promised to share some of his riches with Harvard audiences. On Saturday afternoon he will conduct a master class in Sanders with four undergraduate cellists...
...warning: don't come expecting to hear recipes for great cello playing, or even isolated ingredients. Rostropovich is not only a great musician, but also a great charmer, and one can never gues what means he'll use to captivate and educate his audience. (At a Juilliard master class last fall, Rostropovich asked the audience to allow him his "quota of silliness." He filled at least that.) At any rate, the class will undoubtedly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, if only to hear him fiddle with the instrument...
Count Basie, conductors Seiji Ozawa and Sarah Caldwell and cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich are among the big-name performers coming to Harvard this year as part of the Learning from Performers program, the Office for the Arts announced yesterday...
...Only those who have suffered very deeply can totally understand Dmitri Shostakovich's music," said Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich as he paid tribute to his former teacher and friend. "He gave to the world not only a sense of great beauty, but also a feeling for the great difficulties and contradictions of the epoch in which he lived...
...board of faculty advisors from the Fine Arts, English, Music and Visual and Environmental Studies departments has chosen an advisory committee that included Leonard Bernstein. Dave Brubeck, Joseph Papp. Mstislav Rostropovich and Beverly Sills, to choose the visiting artists, and in many cases to appear themselves...