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Louder Than Bombs: A Life with Music, War, and Peace
By Vulliamy, Ed
- ISBN
- 9780226715407
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Reviewed on February 28, 2020 | Arts
Previously published in the UK as When Words Fail, this works opens with an account of a performance of Joseph Haydn's music at the National Theatre in Sarajevo in 1993, during the Bosnian War, with bombs falling so close that at one point, the vibrations knocked over the violist's music stand. And yet the trio played on. With a reporter's keen eye for detail and a memoirist's rich depth of experience, war c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
