For 16 years Vedran Smailovic has been feted as the Cellist of Sarajevo, a musician who defied the city s snipers by playing for 22 successive days in the rubble of an explosion that claimed the lives of 22 of his fellow Bosnians as they queued to buy bread.
by Blue Moon Puppets at 10:30 a.m. Join this interactive show and enjoy three stories full of forest fun. Watch a tadpole turn into a frog, an egg that becomes a dinosaur and a caterpillar that turns into a butterfly. Recommended for children ages 3 years. Tickets are $10 general public, $8 members. Prepaid reservations are recommended. Puppet Showplace Theatre is at 32 Station St., Brookline.
What is it about me and my fascination for novels about snipers? Over the course of the past couple of years I can think of two novels that have really delivered a bang: First it was Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road , and now Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo has done it again with its poignant examination of a sniper on the front lines of a conflict.
What use is art, or beauty of any kind, in the face of war and other forms of human destructiveness? The late F. R. Scott once wrote a poem called "Overture," in which he juxtaposes a Mozart sonata and the rise of Fascism.
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