Sarievo cellist Alexander Smilovitch played the albinoni in g minor every day for 22 days. The music expresses better than anything else that this is a city of combatants, but it's really a city of people aching for love. By the way, we are now seeing all kinds of echoes of that in ucrane with with musicians.
Are you elevated by sad songs? Have you ever been brought to tears by a TV commercial? Do you relish rainy days? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you know the power of the bittersweet. Yet chances are there have been times when you’ve struggled to square your melancholic disposition with our culture of counterfeit cheer. Well, you won’t feel that way after you’ve heard Susan Cain discuss her new book, “Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.” She argues that longing, sorrow, and grief are the wellsprings of connection, creativity, and hope.
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