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  • Rostropovich, whom his friends called Slava, was musical director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. for nearly 20 years.

    Yo Yo Ma Reflects on Rostropovich 2007

  • Rostropovich, whom his friends called Slava, was musical director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. for nearly 20 years.

    Yo Yo Ma Reflects on Rostropovich 2007

  • There is another folk-melody in the opera which has gained publicity in a manner different from that which made "Ay ouchnem" and "Schöne Minka" widely known; it is the melody of the "Glory" song -- "Slava" -- which Beethoven used in the scherzo of one of his Rasoumowski Quartets.

    Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

  • On the day of the "Slava," which means a special Serbian festival of the saint patron of the family

    Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918

  • Muhammedan inhabitants of Serbian origin are aware that they used to celebrate the Serbian national custom of "Slava," still keep up the

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • Vishnevskaya. - a tribute to the great Russian cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who died in 2007, and his wife, acclaimed opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya - has a similar obsession with objets d'art, as his camera lingers lovingly on the elegant, art-filled residence of "Slava"

    Cleveland Scene 2009

  • 'Slava', as he was affectionately known, had worked in the international department for three decades, involved in both futsal and in youth football competitions.

    uefa.com - News 2009

  • Slava Linkin, with his long curly hair and graying beard, has traveled across the city from IKI, the space-research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to meet us.

    Across the Universe 2009

  • Twenty-foot waves and gale-force winds compelled cancellation of meetings aboard the Soviet cruiser Slava; instead they were held on the elegantly refurbished cruise liner Maxim Gorky, safely docked in Valletta Harbor.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Twenty-foot waves and gale-force winds compelled cancellation of meetings aboard the Soviet cruiser Slava; instead they were held on the elegantly refurbished cruise liner Maxim Gorky, safely docked in Valletta Harbor.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

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