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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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
If you can sing together, you can live together.
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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
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Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.