Word: rostropovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra do things in style, and marching on the picket line is no exception. The high note of the N.S.O.'s strike, which began four days before the opening night of the season, came when the orchestra's conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, joined the marchers in an unusual show of support. When police came by and asked the strikers to move away from the entrance to the Kennedy Center, Slava, exiled from the U.S.S.R., kept a civil tongue in his cheek. "In my country," he protested to the cops, "I have never...
...under the baton of an established conductor. Then one or two podiums open up, and suddenly a game of musical chairs is under way. Right now that game has never been livelier. Antal Dorati has taken over in Detroit, leaving Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony to Mstislav Rostropovich. St. Louis has plucked young American Leonard Slatkin from New Orleans. San Francisco selected Edo de Waart from Rotterdam, after Seiji Ozawa relinquished that post to concentrate on his other job in Boston. Minnesota has grabbed two top Europeans: Britain's Neville Marriner as music director and Germany...
...Mstislav Rostropovich, H.H.D., cellist and conductor...
...apply for U.S. citizenship; he did not want to stop being a Russian. "As artists," he said, "we must be able to play what we want, where and when we want, with whom we want." That creed is perfectly acceptable in Washington, D.C., where Mstislav Rostropovich has achieved a rousing success as conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, but last week it proved unacceptable in Moscow. In a decree signed by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, Rostropovich and his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, were deprived of their Soviet citizenship as "ideological renegades." "Slava" Rostropovich called the action "inhumane and unfair...
...Pennsylvania Avenue (he first played there in 1931 for Herbert Hoover), the maestro wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his U.S. debut. And so he did, last week, thundering out fortissimi to an audience packed with the likes of Isaac Stern, Andrés Segovia and Mstislav Rostropovich. Carter, recalling the cherished Horowitz recording he had as a midshipman, said of his guest artist: "A true national treasure...