Saying Goodbye to Rastropovich

Yuri PautovYuri Pautov Registered Users Posts: 1,918 Major grins
edited April 30, 2007 in People
Dear friends!
These days we say goodbye to Mstislav Rostropovich worldknown violoncellist, conductor, musician.
Oh, what a man he was!
Want to share with you some photos I've made...
1 Famous people are always surrounded with a lot of other people... Some of them are photographers
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2 Maybe some of you will recognize my two 'models' here?
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3 And other two here:
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6 He was a very cheery man - a lot of funny stories, anecdotes...

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  • Scott_QuierScott_Quier Registered Users Posts: 6,524 Major grins
    edited April 28, 2007
    I did not know the man or even of him. Your photos, however, show us a man of character, humility, and one who made great contributions.

    I am so sorry for your loss.
    Scott
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  • mmrodenmmroden Registered Users Posts: 472 Major grins
    edited April 28, 2007
    Hi Scott,

    Check this out:

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

    Quite the loss.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 28, 2007
    Yuri,
    Thank you for your tribute!
    He was a truly great man... :cry bowdown.gif
    May he rest in peace!

    I don't suppose you have pictures of Kirill Lavrov?
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited April 29, 2007
    Great shots, Yuri. The news was linked on the front page of a dutch site as well. I had actually heard of them, but I only knew that he was a cellist.

    The article calls him a 'legendary cellist and conductor'.


    You seem to have more photos of musicians, Yuri. Is there a reason? Or just coincidence? Are you a musician as well?
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  • Yuri PautovYuri Pautov Registered Users Posts: 1,918 Major grins
    edited April 29, 2007
    Ivar
    ivar wrote:
    Great shots, Yuri. The news was linked on the front page of a dutch site as well. I had actually heard of them, but I only knew that he was a cellist.

    The article calls him a 'legendary cellist and conductor'.


    You seem to have more photos of musicians, Yuri. Is there a reason? Or just coincidence? Are you a musician as well?
    Spasibo, Ivar!
    I play guitar, 25 y.ago played in the rock band :-)
    As for Mstislav - he was a world's citizen..
    I had a chance to take some photos of him, at the end of 2006, when he visited our multiplex (BTW the best cinema in Russia in 2006) during his visit to Voronezh.
    Those were the days of centenary of Dmitry Shostakovich.
    My friend and boss - Mikhail (if it is interesting, we have made together with him a site about his father - composer and conductor Mikhail Nosyrev - http://www,nosyrev.com - a man of very hard life) decided to revive one of Shostakovich projects - music to the film.
    So, we invited a philharmonic orchestra. They we playing during the film (like ballroom pianist). I will return to these photos later and of course post them here...
    So Mstislav with pleasure agreed to come to our multipex 'SPARTAK'.
    After the film, he had a talk with spectators - very interesting, funny...
    Genius person!
    So many stories!
    Spasibo for you interest - some other photos - at my site, reportage pages...
    Yuri
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,979 moderator
    edited April 30, 2007
    Yuri,

    I was lucky enough to hear him play several times over the years. You were fortunate indeed to have met him. He will be missed by music lovers all over the world.

    Regards,
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