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Article: From Bosnia to Boston: A musical escape Inspired by concerts under fire, oboist plays her way to New England Conservatory
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 22, 1996
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For a year after war came to the city, the Sarajevo Philharmonic
ceased operations. And a young oboe student named Lamija Talam left
her instrument in its case: There didn't seem much point in trying to
make music.
"I just didn't feel like practicing," says Talam. "So I tried to
learn English."
Today she speaks fluent English and has just finished her first
year as a student at the New England Conservatory of Music.
"Nobody had really thought that war would come to Sarajevo," Talam
recalls. She remembers watching wars on television when she was a
child -- war was something that always happened someplace else. "No
one believed that it would happen, that it would be that bad, that it
would ...