tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-16417966243088668532007-03-01T02:31:00.000Z2007-03-01T02:31:00.000ZSaw Rostropovich at the San Francisco Symphony last year conducting two different all-Shostakovich programs and it made me reevaluate the composer completely. Rostropovich himself was radiating such energy it was astonishing.<BR/><BR/>By the way, his wife Galina Vishnevskaya's memoirs, "Galina," has got to be one of the greatest cultural/political autobiographies ever written. Check it out if you haven't already read it.sfmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.com