After periods of great suffering, "it is in the nature of people to always look ahead and take the direction of progress," maintains Darko Krstic, acting director of the 91-year-old Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, which is embarking on its first U.S. tour. The experience of his institution provides a case in point, he says. The devastating Balkan wars of the 1990s " which led to NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 " took…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:34PM on October 3, 2014