Rostropovich

[ros-truh-poh-vich; Russ. ruh-struh-paw-vyich]

noun

Msti·slav (Le·o·pol·do·vich)

[mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich; Russ. mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] , 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).

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Rostropovich (ˌrɒstrəˈpəʊvɪtʃ, Russian rəstraˈpɔvitʃ)

—n
	Mstislav Leopoldovich (ˈmɪstɪslɑːv; Russian mstiˈslaf leaˈpɔldavitʃ). 1927--2007, Soviet cellist, composer, and conductor; became a US citizen in 1978 after losing Soviet citizenship (restored in 1990)

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"Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list."

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