Word: sviatoslav
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Early in the fall Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a Ukranian dissident living in internal exile in the Soviet Union, accepted a two-year-old invitation from the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures to lecture here...
Soviet authorities recently granted an exit visa for Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a Ukrainian translator who spent 30 years in Soviet prisons before his release in September...
...another Ukrainian dissident invited to come to Harvard has been released from Mordovia. Three times in the last two years, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invited Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a translator, poet and literary critic from Odessa to give two lectures on "problems in the translation of classical English texts in Ukrainian...
...announcer's list. Says she: "I would listen to myself being obliterated." Slava adds: "It was like a slow-motion plan against us. Step by step. Already, our names could not appear in newspapers. My recordings were not played on the state radio." When he performed with Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, only Richter's name appeared in the next day's reviews. Rostropovich concerts were canceled everywhere. "I request engagements in other countries," says Slava, "and Ministry send telegrams saying, 'Rostropovich ill.' They cancel my television appearances. Why? They say, 'Oh, Rostropovich is not very talented. He is bad cellist.' Suddenly...
...been different. Harold Shaw, the new man at Hurok Concerts, is regarded as a sound businessman. His abilities as a starmaker in the Hurok tradition are less well known. Despite the recent depletion of its talent roster, Hurok Concerts still handles a respectable array of artists, including Van Cliburn, Sviatoslav Richter, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda and Artur Rubinstein. One of the joys of the new Shaw-Hurok liaison, said Shaw last week, is that now Guitarist Bream and Mezzo Baker can give joint recitals in the U.S., as they have in England. One of the things...