Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday. He was 80 ...

The cellists of the National Symphony will open a tribute concert to cellist Mstislav "Slava" Rostropovich, the orchestra's former music director who died in his native Russia last week at 80. By The ...

An exhibition in London looks at performance art and photography, a festival brings over 200 music acts to Estonia, and two contemporary art shows run in Tokyo. By Christopher D. Shea A Calder ...

On the Kutuzov embankment in St Petersburg is a handsome mansion that caught Mstislav Rostropovich's eye when he returned to Russia in 1990 after 16 years in exile. During the Soviet years it had been ...

Mstislav Rostropovich was many things: a commanding conductor, a political dissident, a public figure in the world of classical music. But before all that, he played the cello. One year after his ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor considered by many to be one of the finest virtuosos of his instrument in the last half of the 20th century, has died. He was 80. Rostropovich, who ...

“It’s not that he always stood up for freedom,” said my friend Alex, also a musician, of Mstislav Rostropovich. “It was that he was a great cellist who communicated well.” In a sense, with each attack ...

The cellist Yo Yo Ma looks back at the life of master cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who died Friday at 80 at a Moscow hospital. Ma credits Rostopovich for invigorating the cello repertoire, both as a ...

The funeral of the celebrated Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich has been held in Moscow. The ceremony took place in the same grand cathedral which earlier this week staged the ...

MUSIC, under totalitarianism, was one of the great escapes. The most vicious secret policeman could not wholly curb the human spirit once it moved into the world of sounds. “Slava” Rostropovich (the ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died.