Editing Mstislav Rostropovich (section)

==August 1968 proms==
Rostropovich played at [[The Proms]] on the night of 21 August 1968. He played with the [[USSR State Symphony Orchestra]]; it was the orchestra's debut performance at the Proms. The programme featured Czech composer [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s [[Cello Concerto (Dvořák)|Cello Concerto in B minor]] and took place on the same day that the [[Warsaw Pact]] [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia|invaded Czechoslovakia]] to end [[Alexander Dubček]]'s [[Prague Spring]].<ref name="BBC, 1 September 2007">{{cite news | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/foronenightonly/pip/jqmqo/| title=For One Night Only – The Prom of Peace | publisher=BBC Radio 4 | date=1 September 2007 | access-date=2008-08-17}}</ref> After the performance, which had been preceded by heckling and demonstrations, the orchestra and soloist were cheered by the Proms audience.<ref>Wilson: pp. 292–293</ref> Rostropovich stood and held aloft the conductor's score of the Dvořák as a gesture of solidarity for the composer's homeland and the city of Prague.<ref name="Proms August 1968">{{cite web | title=1968 Proms | website=YourClassical from American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio | date=2019-08-21 | url=https://www.yourclassical.org/episode/2019/08/21/1968-proms | access-date=2023-05-03}}</ref>