Mstislav Rostropovich, World-RenownedCellist, Dies
 

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/arts/music/27cnd-Rostropovichcnd.html[/url]

My Dad took me to see him play with the Cleveland Orchestra in the late
70s, a few years after he (Rostropovich, not Dad) emigrated/defected
from the USSR. A man of courage and conviction, and of course supreme
talent.

-E