A supremely eloquent witness to the Holocaust; an implacable rebuke to resurgent fascism in America, Germany, and around the world; a born musician, a piercing wit, a great soul, an altogether glorious personage — Lasker-Wallfisch begins her second century tomorrow. I wrote about her for the New Yorker website last year. I won't say anything as banal as "Happy birthday," but some such sentiment is apt.