Word: rostropovich
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...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...
...Mstislav Rostropovich-what a man! Thanks for your loff-ly story...
...Rostropovich will be as big an asset to music in this nation as Pele was to the game of soccer. You have fulfilled many of the wishes of classical-music lovers. To the Russians who mistreated the artists who are in exile in our country: Repent! You have lost the best in music, literature and dance...
...capture the exciting quality of Rostropovich's musical personality. But excitement and exuberance are not the only qualities needed by a conductor. He must know the repertoire and how to exact from the players the precision demanded by the scores. Rostropovich is the master of the grand gesture, but the ensemble results are not yet equal to his expansiveness on the podium...
...almost completely ignore Antal Dorati-the genius who made the National Symphony worthy of a Rostropovich; who worked similar miracles with the London, Stockholm, BBC and Minneapolis symphonies; who has-almost sin-glehanded-created a Haydn revival; and who has championed the works of countless contemporary composers...