April 29, 2007
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Structural Logic
Rite
“The coffin of the cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich seen
inside Christ the Savior Cathedral during a farewell ceremony in
Moscow, Sunday, April 29, 2007. Hundreds of Russians on Sunday came to
bid final farewell to the great cellist and conductor Mstislav
Rostropovich who won world fame for his masterly play and his courage
in defending human rights. Rostropovich, who fought for the rights of
Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below
the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday at age 80. (AP Photo/Mikhail
Metzel)” –AP News“His graceful accounts of the Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
illuminated the works’ structural logic as well as their inner
spirituality.” –Allan Kozinn in Friday’s New York Times
