"Farewell, beloved friend." These are the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whom Mr. Rostropovich had sheltered from the Soviet authorities in the 1970s. Solzhenitsyn called Rostropovich's death a "bitter blow to (Russian) culture."
As a guest conductor at the New York Philharmonic in 2005:
Performing Bach next to the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie, Nov. 12, 1989, days after it had been breached:
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