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...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...
...first performance of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra draws raves, with special praise going to concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, first cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and conductor Georg Solti. The one undergraduate in HRO, who asked to remain anonymous, said afterwards, "It was a great honor to play on a college orchestra of this quality...
...weakened heart gave out. He had never fully recovered from open-heart surgery early in 1973 for implantation of an artificial heart valve. He came out of the anesthesia with partial paralysis of his right arm. The pity was that it ended his performing career. Playing with Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his friend Tenor Peter Pears, with whom he shared a semi-manorial brick house in Aldeburgh, Britten was a deft, expressive accompanist at the piano. He was an exceptional conductor, not only of his own works but also of Bach, Purcell and Mozart. His graceful, impassioned version of Mozart...
...some of the greatest Soviet artists, America is providing an almost miraculous sense of renewal. "Only here can I speak from the heart," says Mstislav Rostropovich, the master cellist who has blossomed into a first-rank conductor since moving to the U.S. in 1974. "Only here can I fulfill my life as an artist. Now I can work. That is why I am very, very happy here." But though Rostropovich has been appointed director of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, and though he vows he will not return to Russia until artists there get more freedom, he still...
...dance studios for $1 an hour. Last week both were back at Carnegie Hall, along with the New York Philharmonic and a contingent of famous colleagues, for a fund-raising gala to celebrate the hall's 85th anniversary. Among the performers: Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had come to play at his first nighttime concert in 35 years. The program, which cost up to $ 1,000 per ticket and inspired $1.2 million in contributions to the impoverished performance center, included compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Tchaikovsky-the latter...