Tonight's fare included my Sweetie's Tarragon Chicken Salad with Walnuts and Grapes. Too bad blogging can't include tastings.
On the literary side we discussed The Cellist of Sarajevo. Published in 2008, it is the story of four people coping during the siege of Sarajevo. On May, 27, 1992, 22 people were killed during a mortar attack on a bread line at 4:00. For the next 22 days Vedran Smailovac, a local cellist, played Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor at the site at 4:00 everyday.
Here he is in the ruins of the National Library.
It is a very gripping novel which made all of us realize how fortunate we are to live where we do and to have never experienced living in a war-torn area.
This is the music that is used as the soundtrack of the last, ripping, hideous scene in the movie Galipoli--a movie that has stayed with me emotionally since I saw it when I was 18. When I hear this music all I can see is line after line of young men being sent out of trenches and into an unrelenting gunfire storm as the runner who was sent with the message to stop the insanity tries in vain to reach the front. War. That scene was probably the one that solidified my beliefs as a Quaker and a pacifist. War is NEVER the answer.
ReplyDeleteAll of our Salon members thought it sounded familiar or that it should be on a movie soundtrack. Thanks to you now we know.
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