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...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...
...Bolshoi Ballet is well into its fourth U.S. tour in 16 years. The Moiseyev folk dancers are regular visitors to America. Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov, Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich are now residents in the West. What more could Russia possibly offer American audiences? The Bolshoi Opera, for one. Though in recent years the Bolshoi has visited Osaka, Tokyo, Montreal, Paris and Milan, it was not until last week at New York's Metropolitan Opera that the company set foot, props and double bass pins on U.S. soil. Bolshoi means big, and the opera company is nothing if not bolshoi...
...much I could have done for my country had I been given just 'musical freedom,' " lamented Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, 47, in a letter written recently to Le Monde. His claim was vindicated by his U.S. conducting debut before an audience of 2,700 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington. Rostropovich, who had encountered growing repression in his homeland because of his loyalty to Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissident artists, left the Soviet Union in May with his wife, Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. The maestro's troubles seemed almost distant, however, as he guided...
...leisurely 14-day croisiere de musique off the Côte d'Azur, it had on board a classic boatload of cash and culture. Some 200 music lovers paid up to $4,500 to glide around the Mediterranean to the personal accompaniment of the likes of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Alexander Schneider, Flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and Dancer Rudi Nureyev. Each day the geniuses would entertain the guests. Rostropovich, who left Russia on a two-year visa last May, was the star both on and off stage. He hammed it up on the ship's piano clad...
Earlier in this century, composers rarely featured the cello, considering it a lowly second cousin to the violin. Artists like Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, Mstislav Rostropovich and Starker revealed the silken tonal beauty of the instrument. Still, the repertory remains narrow. Starker speculates that this Brahms sonata, written in the year of the composer's death (1897), may have been his last work. In any event, his publisher died soon after. With the decline of the firm, copies of the Brahms sonata may have been overlooked until at last the so nata disappeared from view...