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...someone had returned to me a missing part of my body!" Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich exclaimed in Washington. The Russian é migré maestro could be excused the hyperbole. Other Soviet figures have sought artistic freedom in the West, but few could match the poignant symbolism of last week's defection drama. In a stunning rebuff to Kremlin cultural politics, the son and grandson of the Soviet Union's most celebrated contemporary composer the late Dmitri Shostakovich, decided to join Rostropovich in exile and petition the U.S. State Department for asylum...
...George Bush and his family will be wel comed by Texas Governor Wil liam Clements at a "black-tie and boots" reception. On Sun day, there will be two candle light dinners and four concerts at the Kennedy Center, featuring Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich leading the National Symphony Orchestra. Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush will toast a "distinguished ladies" reception for 7,000 on Monday...
...supremely elegant but lacks the sonorous grandeur that audiences have come to admire in a Piatigorsky or a Rostropovich. Some might attribute this to the French tradition of string playing, but it may also be due to a congenital curvature of Ma's spine. Complex surgery last spring corrected the condition...
Brahms: Double Concerto (Angel). Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich in a noble and ardent performance...
...Street Club, a turn-of-the-century town house that is often the scene of chic dinner parties, the Reagans received their guests, including Mayor Marion Barry Jr., National Gallery of Art Director J. Carter Brown, Howard University President James Cheek, Department Store Magnate John Hechinger, and Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington...