Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
and the Trondheim
TUE 11/13 8PM
Soloists
Hill Auditorium • Ann Arbor
performing
Vivaldi's
Four Seasons
"Mutter has it all," sayS the Newyork Times.
"Audience acclaim, critical respect, a tech-
nique second to none, a sense of musical
adventure, the luxury to play what she
wants, and classic ice-princess beauty."
Grieg
Even humor and love undergo unex-
pected transformations. Lirwak's bitter-
sweet recollection of his brief romance
with a Parisian girl — one of the few
interludes of genuine happiness in the
book — is tinged with an almost des-
perate melancholy, like a prisoner
thinking back to an escape that failed.
The combat he inevitably sees in
Belgium and later Germany is
recounted honestly:
"There were times when we'd squat
near the dead and break open our
packages of K rations and eat the
processed ham and eggs and the pow-
dered orange juice. We'd light cans of
Sterno under canteen cups and heat
the bouillon and the sour coffee and
afterward lie exhausted among the
dead, heads braced on down-turned
helmets, a cigarette for those who
smoked, feeling neither the misery
nor pleasure of being alive, snoozing
until Sergeant Lucca prodded us.
"We were stupefied by the death we'd
breathed, and stumbled toward combat
clutched by the fear that we, too, could
be made simple. We ate among the
dead, slept among the dead, tried to rid
ourselves of pity for the dead."
Some who survive war — like Litwak
— give us the gift of looking into its
face and realizing its horrific cost.
The author bears witness to the
heroism of American soldiers who —
despite the prevailing bigotry of the
time — united to fight evil in all its
incarnations.
Yet, Litwak doesn't believe there was
a "greatest generation."
"We lived through great historic
times," he said in an interview with the
San Francisco Chronicle. "But other
generations, the one that ended segre-
gation, for example, were great as well."
Time will tell whether today's gen-
eration, at war in a battle against ter-
rorism, will reach that pinnacle of
greatness.
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