If you know the ukrainian conductor. Is definitely want to watch in the Classical Music scene shes receiving accolades from musicians and critics alike and this in a profession that is still predominantly male apart from being in great demand around the world she started a festival in Western Ukraine and this year is opened with a special concerts to remember the Jewish Population who were decimated in the 2nd World War. The cottage symphony by Leonard Bernstein based on the jewish prayer of mourning. This year the Lives Mozart Festival opened in the town of Brody Population 24000. On stage 200. 00 artists from ukraine and around the globe at the site the town of brody has never before seen and its difficult 1000 year history. Cut this. Conductor oksana lino it was determined to have the concert here. These are the ruins of brodys Great Synagogue destroyed in world war 2 for. Today the ruins are surrounded by homes. The whole town of bertie turned out to listen even to the rehearsals.
least now doesn t give us new tab. in the late 19th century almost 90 percent of bertie s population was jewish in 1945 after pogroms and the holocaust only $88.00 members of brody s jewish community were maimed today there s little left to testify to what was once a jewish cultural center known as the jerusalem of policial. oksana linnet who conducts concerts around the globe grew up just 2 blocks away from the synagogues ruins for her the concert is also a homecoming this is where her roots are where she comes to rest and recharge but she s also got a mission to put the historical region of the least now straddling the ukrainian polish border back on the world s cultural map that was one reason she helped found the festival 3 years ago. that s about