poet-in-the-trenches:

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Vedran Smailović, former cellist of the Sarajevo Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra.

When his beloved city was under siege in the Bosnian War, he would venture at night to climb on the towers of rubble that was once the square fountain, and to the sound of gunfire and bombs, he would play on his cello the melody of Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor; a performance alluding to the 1945 Bombing of Dresden, where the musical piece would have forever been lost had it not been for those presurving art in the face of war.

He did it for 22 days, each in the honor of one of the victims bombed waiting in line for bread in the streets of Sarajevo.

(Source: lesmartyrs)