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Boston University Faculty Chamber Concert--Endel Kalam conducts Mozart, Shostakovich, Miller and Schumann. At BU Concert Hall, 855 Comm Ave., Boston. Admission $1. Call 353-3345 for details...
...talked to TIME'S Robert Slater about "the intensity, the sheer eruptive force behind Rostropovich's enthusiasm." In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov interviewed Leonard Bernstein, who recalled how Rostropovich first came to dinner a decade ago, bringing "records, tapes, scores and messages from Shostakovich." Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo went to question Rostropovich and to watch his orchestral rehearsals in his newly adopted city. Recalling his emotional concert with the National Symphony on the Fourth of July, 1975-the first year of the Russian's new life in the West-Angelo felt that...
...hands of Rostropovich, the renaissance flowered. New works were written for him by Benjamin Britten, Lukas Foss, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev. In the Soviet Union alone, innumerable compositions were dedicated to him. This burgeoning literature, as well as the example of Rostropovich himself, has encouraged a new generation of fine young cellists, who have moved from deep inside the orchestra to center stage...
...Rostropovich was denied permission to participate in a BBC program honoring Shostakovich. In a fury, he told a Western journalist that the Soviet authorities had imposed an "artistic quarantine" on him and Galina...
...choice of the Shostakovich, though, did indicate that conductor Yannatos intends to challenge the HRO's capabilities throughout the year. Like most student orchestras, HRO should show marked improvement, and is starting out this year from a higher level than usual. But in terms of what the representative large orchestra of the Harvard community could and should sound like, HRO has a long...