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
concert hall incredibly industries private sector whom
The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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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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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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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.
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We have an opening for concertmaster, and we weren't able to find anybody in the last set of auditions. Would you be interested in coming and sitting with us for a month?
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It is the technical part of the performance which is troubling me more than the musical part.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
people
There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
time york
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
israelis time
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
european life
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.