A TALK WITH MAYA PLISETSKAYA

From: The Boston Globe | Date: March 19, 1988| Author: Margo Miller, Globe Staff | Copyright information

A press conference three hours before curtain time is probably not ballerina Maya Plisetskaya's idea of fun, but trouper that she is, she met the media yesterday and made the case for art over self.

Plisetskaya was dressed in a fur coat,black sweater and jeans tucked into quilted leather boots.

The Boston reaction to "Making Music Together" has been "wonderful," she said through interpretor Irina Gomez.

No, she said, she does not consider herself a role model for...

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