Sarajevo The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina City area 142 km² km² Population 308,558.

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Sarajevo

• The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• City area 142 km²  • Population 308,558

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Sarajevo has attracted international attention several times throughout its history.

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In 1914 it was the site of the assassination that sparked

World War I.

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Seventy years later it became the host city of the

1984 Winter Olympics.

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More recently, Sarajevo underwent the longest siege in modern military

history during the Bosnian war.

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Today the city is recovering and adjusting to a post-war reality, as a

major center of culture and economic development in

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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The Sarajevo art academy, on the bank of the Miljacka.

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The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo.

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Sarajevo was the first city in Europe to have a full-time (from dawn to dusk) operational electric tram line.

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Baščaršija, Old town of Sarajevo

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• On May 27, 1992, one of the few bakeries that still had a supply of flour was making and distributing bread to the starving, war-shattered people. At 4 P.M. a long line reached into the street.

• Suddenly, a mortar shell fell directly into the middle of the line, killing 22 people and splattering flesh, blood, bone, and rubble.

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• Before the war, Vedran Smailovic had been a cellist with Sarajevo Opera Orchestra, a distinguished career to which he longed to return.

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• But when he saw the massacre outside his window, he was pushed past his capacity to endure any more.

• Such was his anguish that he resolved to do the thing he did best: make music. Public music, brave music, music on a battlefield.

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Vedran Smailović playing the cello in the partially destroyed National Library in 1992.

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• For each of the next 22 days, at 4 P.M., Smailovic put on his full, formal concert dress, took up his cello and walked out of his apartment into the midst of the battle raging around him.

• He played to the abandoned streets, destroyed trucks, and burning building, and to the terrified people who hid in the cellars while the bombs dropped and bullets flew.

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During these 22 days, Vedran Smailovic played one of the most mournful and haunting pieces in the classical repertoire, “Adaigio in G minor” composed by Albinoni.

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David Wilde

• An English composer, who was so moved by the story of this extraordinary man, wrote a composition for unaccompanied cello, “The Cellist of Sarajevo.”

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David Wilde

• I first read about it (The cellist of Sarajevo). I sat in the train, deeply moved, I listened; and somewhere deep within me a cello began to play a circular melody like a lament without end….

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The cellist of SarajevoPerformed by Yo-yo Ma

• The music began, stealing out into the quiet hall and creating a shadowy, empty universe.

• Slowly it grew into an agonized, screaming, and slashing furor, gripping us all before subsiding at last into a hollow death rattle and, finally, back to silence.

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•  Borderline    Chris De Burgh I‘m standing in the station          

• I‘m waiting for a train to take me to the border And my loved one far away  

• I watched a bunch of soldiers         • Heading for the war                 

• I could hardly even bear to see them go      Rolling through the countryside          

• Tears are in my eyes                

• We're coming to the borderline           I'm ready with my lies              And in the early morning rain           I see her there                  And I know I'll have to say goodbye again  

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• And it‘s breaking my heart             I know what I must do               I hear my country call me          But I want to be with you             

• I‘m taking my side                 

• One of us will lose                Don‘t let go,                   I want to know                 

• That you will wait for me until the day There's no borderline, no borderline                        

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• Walking past the border guards         Reaching for her hand               Showing no emotion 

• I want to break into a run            But these are only boys              And I will never know               How men can see the wisdom in a war