... and bad times. Sometimes the river of God is full of water, the hymn declares, and the valleys are full of food. But other times the rivers are dry and the valleys barren. Just ask Mstislav Rostropovich, universally recognized as the world's greatest living cellist. During the height of the Cold War, Rostropovich and his wife (the soprano Galina Vishneyskaya) spoke out on behalf of human rights and artistic freedoms in the face of a Soviet Union who were trying to shut up physicists like Andrei Sakharov and ...
