A host of musicians performed a special concert to benefitArmenia's earthquake victims, with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich atone point asking the audience to withhold applause in deference tothe dead.
The concert at London's Barbican Center lasted into the earlyhours of Sunday morning and its hastily arranged program ofTchaikovsky, Chopin and Mozart was beamed live around the world,including to the Soviet Union.
Conductor Andre Previn and flutist James Galway, as well asRostropovich, were among the …
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