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...pathetic one. Last week began with the spectacle of Akashi standing in the rain at Sarajevo's airport -- closed for aid flights since Bosnian Serbs shot up an American cargo plane on April 13 -- trying to spin into a success his failure to extend the cease-fire between the government and the Serbs. No one had signed anything, but all sides, he said, had "undertaken a solemn engagement to show maximum restraint." Unfortunately, even with a cease-fire agreement, the parties have not exactly been known for their restraint. While the cease-fire was still in effect, the Bosnian Serbs...
Levy and co-director Alain Ferrari included footage documenting the most gruesome, tragic and horrifying events of the war. Scenes from concentration camps, the morgue, the hospital, the aftermath of a massacre on the streets of Sarajevo, are, as Levy reminds, eerily reminiscent of scenes from WWII. Watching this footage is moving and affecting, but the impact is almost completely emotional. "Bosna!" fails to place the complex war in a political context outside of its clear agenda...
Mitterand eventually makes a visit to Sarajevo, temporarily bouying Bosnian spirits, but ultimately leaving them disappointed and less hopeful than before. An edited sequence of interviews with Mitterand and Izetbegovic plays up the dissimulation inherent in Western policy in Bosnia. But the politics are personal, limited to these two men and the context remains narrow...
Composer Osborne, 46, is a professor of music at Edinburgh University whose association with the city began during his student days. Since the outbreak of the Bosnian war, he has been committed to keeping alive Sarajevo's cultural diversity, returning several times to conduct musical workshops for the city's children. His opera Sarajevo was performed in London in August. A political allegory with biting satire, Evropa takes place on a drifting ocean liner. Its anxious young passengers want to know their destination, but alas, the ship is being steered by Madame Europa, a faded grande dame who is more...
MUSIC Bosnia And the Ship Sailed On Evropa Music by Nigel Osborne; Libretto by Goran Simic The necessity of the arts for the survival of dignity and the human spirit is nowhere more apparent than in Sarajevo. In nearly three years under siege, Sarajevans have refused to allow the Bosnian capital's artistic soul to perish. An emotional highlight at the 11th annual Sarajevo Winter Festival last week was a one-time-only performance of an operetta by Britain's Nigel Osborne and Bosnian poet Goran Simic. With President Alija Izetbegovic in the audience, the production (also seen on national...