Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehtais an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Main Conductor for Valencia's opera house. Mehta is also the chief conductor of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth29 April 1936
CountryIndia
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
art designers work
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
critics
Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
demanding giving highest musicians standard
American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
indebted music musically
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
central orchestras
I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
competition conductor constantly difficult direct good great hall nature orchestras seems york
It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
cnn reporting
I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
count emerged institute nobel number technical
Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
against bombing hussein israel people saddam soon time turn
As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
bad
Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?