Modern folk music in this country often involves the horah dance.
A former musical director of this country's philharmonic orchestra performed Mozart's requiem in the ruins of Sarajevo to raise money for the war-torn Balkans. In 1953, a violinist on tour in this country was assaulted with a crowbar for performing Richard Strauss' Violin Sonata. An academic from this modern-day country helped found a Seville-based orchestra that performed a complete cycle of Beethoven's symphonies at the 2012 Proms. In late 2016, (*) Zubin Mehta announced plans to quit conducting with this country's Philharmonic. A 2009 performance of "Air and Simple Gifts" was given by a polio-ridden violinist born in this modern-day country country at Barack Obama's inauguration. Modern folk music in this country often involves the horah dance. For 10 points, Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said formed the West-Eastern Divan orchestra to unite youth in what home of Yitzhak Perlman?
A former musical director of this country's philharmonic orchestra performed Mozart's requiem in the ruins of Sarajevo to raise money for the war-torn Balkans.
(State of) Israel [or Eretz Yisra'el; prompt on Palestine from Insistent Political People if you have to]