Word: rostropovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Rome Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof went back-stage at the Stadt Casino in Basel to seek out Mstislav Rostropovich, this week's cover subject, the famous Russian cellist-conductor gave him a joyous greeting. "My uncle Massimo is a concert cellist," says Amfitheatrof, "and when I introduced myself to Rostropovich, he cried, 'Your face is like Mass-eemo, and Mass-eemo is my dear friend.' It was an invitation to the extraordinary warmth that pours from Rostropovich like lava from some Slavic Vesuvius." Interviewing Rostropovich's many friends and associates for our story...
International Editor Jesse Birnbaum, who was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Nancy Newman, flew to Washington last week for Rostropovich's premiere concert as musical director and had a similar feeling as he began writing this story. Says Birnbaum: "With Rostropovich, there is his beautiful music, but there is also the man-his poverty as a boy, his great triumphs, his struggle with Soviet authorities, his coming to America. It's a remarkable tale...
...razzmatazz, a pastiche stitched together by Leonard Bernstein from his 1976 musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The show had not fared well on Broadway, and the music culled from it might have passed unremarked?except that the enraptured man on the podium was the renowned cellist and magnificent maestro Mstislav Rostropovich, the N.S.O.'s new permanent conductor, Washington's grandest new monument...
...love life more now than I did as a boy, and I will go on loving it more until my last moments." The speaker was Painter Marc Chagall, who celebrated his 90th birthday last week. For the occasion, his friend and fellow Russian, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, helped to organize a gala concert in Nice, not far from Chagall's hillside home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Among the other performers who played or sang in his honor: Violinist Isaac Stern, Baritone Hermann Prey and Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Chagall attended the concert as well as a nearby exhibition...
...50th birthday present to himself and "to give something back to my music," Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is giving a dozen free concerts round the world. But not at home in the U.S.S.R., which he left in 1974 on a two-year visa and to which he does not plan to return until he is guaranteed full artistic freedom. One invitation he accepted was to play with the student orchestra at Brown, in honor of the inauguration of the university's new president, Howard Swearer. So well subscribed was the event that Rostropovich found himself playing the Saint...