A grove of trees honoring the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich has been established in Jerusalem’s Neveh Ya’akov neighborhood by the Jewish National Fund, it was announced here. The grove was sponsored by musicians of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Information Center for Soviet Jewry, in recognition of Shostakovich’s life-long compassion for the plight of Soviet Jewry.
Shostakovich’s son Maxim, a well-known European orchestra conductor who resides in the United States, was present at the recent dedication of the grove, which coincided with a series of concerts he was conducting in Israel, devoted to his father’s compositions.
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