Daniel Paul Horn wrote:: >Rostropovich's last stage acknowledgement was perhaps the most touching >he walked to the podium and lifted the score of the Thirteenth for the >audience to see, and then stepped back and applauded it, along with his >departed teacher and friend. Last year here in Peru the director of the University of Lima's Orchestra (Eduardo Garcia-Barrios) did the same gesture with the DSCH Fifth's score! Mauricio Veliz Cartagena [log in to unmask]