Mstislav Rostropovich, A Great Cellist & Person, Has Died

[Dinger]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3087382

"MOSCOW Apr 27, 2007 (AP)— 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, has died, his spokeswoman said. He was 80. . . ."

[teenagebambam]

1. Met him in 97 or so

He and his wife were both lovely people, and the event where I met him was under bomb threat because of his political convictions....he didn't care, he conducted anyway, and his wife taught a ballet master class!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. saw him in Chicago a few times, once at tanglewood,

and once in DC.

a historical figure, bot in music and in ocial changes.