Sunday, Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. For more than 28 years, the wall completely cut off East Berlin from West Berlin, and its collapse was accompanied by public ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday. He was 80 ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died.

MOSCOW -- Mstislav Rostropovich played the cello with grace and verve -- and lived his life offstage the same way. His death at age 80 takes away one of modern Russia's most compelling figures, ...

An exhibition in London looks at performance art and photography, a festival brings over 200 music acts to Estonia, and two contemporary art shows run in Tokyo. By Christopher D. Shea A Calder ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich was buried on Sunday close to late President Boris Yeltsin as Russia bade farewell to a musical genius and lover of freedom. Sign up here ...

MOSCOW - Mstislav Rostropovich, the renowned cellist and conductor who won world fame for his masterly playing and his courage in defending human rights, was buried Sunday in the Moscow cemetery that ...

Cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, considered one of the finest cellists of his era, died April 27 in Moscow of intestinal cancer. He was 80. He had returned to Russia last month after years ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mstislav Rostropovich, who died on Friday aged 80, was regarded by many critics as the world's greatest cellist and also became a symbol of the fight for artistic freedom under ...

MOSCOW — Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, ...