Time to the Target

The conductor urges the members of Lviv’s military brass band to keep rehearsing not just funeral marches, but also upbeat pieces—for when they no longer have to play only at funerals. In this historic city in western Ukraine, the trenches may be far away, but the war is not—it just makes its presence felt here with a slight delay. Initially the cemetery had 100 plots reserved for fallen soldiers, but before long the few gravediggers could no longer keep up.