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For those who don’t know the story of Rostropovich playing at the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s remarkable:

https://www.wqxr.org/story/berliners-celebrated-freedom-rostropovich-played-bach/

An important thing to know here is that Rostropovich is one of the, oh, [waves hand] 3 or 4 greatest cellists ever to live, a •stunning• player, champion of new music and artistic freedom and stripped of his Soviet citizenship for that.

The way he just set up on a folding chair and played in the milling crowd, this giant a tiny figure next to history…!

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