Very few sights are cooler than somebody playing a cello -- even if they play badly and the audio it's all wrong, it's just cool (all due respect to the other tremendous instruments, we just think the cello carries a particular strain of DNA awesomeness).
If somebody plays it like Rostropovich, then, the coolness factor is just off the charts.
Farewell to the great Maestro, who had been sick for a long time now.
More on the sad news later.